Britt Lower & Dichen Lachman On All Things 'Severance'

There's a lot of relationships going on.

Our love tetrahedron.

Hi, I'm Dichen Lachman.

I'm Britt Lower.

And we're here chatting with Glamour, in London.

Intense.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, it stirs up a lot of emotion.

Yeah.

Which I think was Ben and Dan's goal.

It wasn't originally going to end that way.

Right.

But I think they thought they had to,

they had to have that moment.

But it's so heartbreaking.

I mean, I remember reading it and just, you know,

we've watched Outie Mark mourn

and search for Gemma for two seasons.

And simultaneously, Innie Mark is falling for Helly,

and forming this chosen family with Irving and Dylan.

So these two concurrent relationships

coming to a head was something that was inevitable.

But, with every great tragedy,

you hope against the inevitable.

Yeah.

It was that moment on the card,

the man, the same man fighting himself.

Right, the ego death.

The ego death.

But it's exciting to see how engaged the viewers are,

and how much they wanna know what happens next.

That's how you want the show to end,

with that desire for them to want more,

and spend more time with all the incredible characters.

I just want more scuba diving.

Pineapple bobbing. That's right.

I just, all underwater activities.

How incredible- Water polo.

Was the stop motion, in season two?

More stop motion animation, that's what I wanna see.

Wow.

I mean, those guys deserve so much credit.

And actually, not a lot of people have asked about that.

I actually don't know anything about it.

But I do wanna just acknowledge like the amount of work

that goes into stop motion is phenomenal.

And Keanu Reeves as the voice.

Oh, did you know about that?

I did.

When did you?

I had no idea, I was like who is that?

I was so excited, I was like Keanu.

Did they figure that out after we filmed,

or did they know that-

I think it was happening.

Oh, it was? I think.

Wow. I think so, yeah.

Blown away. Little Easter egg.

I wish he would come to one of our press things.

Just be excellent to each other.

Yeah. [laughs]

I feel like people relate to the show

because not everybody has the opportunity

to do what they love.

And they are in jobs like, I mean,

everyone in this room is pursuing something,

you know, creative, and dynamic, and fun.

And there are, sadly, a lot of jobs in this world

where it's a grind, and it's not inspiring or creative.

And it's very corporate,

and there's not a lot of flexibility.

So on that level, I think,

people can relate to that office culture.

And I think on the other level, they're relating to

the need to escape, and they're having an alter ego

or a different part of themselves they wanna explore.

I think it's just a very natural

human desire to wanna escape.

Yeah, I think there's so many analogies.

I mean, I feel like the greatest compliment

is just hearing the way the fans are applying

the questions of the show to their own life,

and asking themselves, Well what would I do?

Would I behave in this way?

Would I wanna sever?

Would you know, do I have parts of my life

that I have an Innie and an Outie for?

There's a great one about Ricken being a goat.

That's my favorite one too.

I think it's the best one.

It's so unoriginal, but it's so out there.

I love it.

And I love that they invested the time to try

and justify how they came up with the theory.

It is so good, it's so good.

[Interviewer] Do you think Ricken's a goat?

No, I don't think he's a goat.

[both laughing] No.

It was intense.

It was very intense.

And it was very technical, at the beginning of the day.

Which I found challenging, because you almost,

you're trying so hard to get the shot right.

But you're also trying to experience all of the emotions.

And doing those zollies on the move

were probably the hardest things I've ever had to do.

So that part was really tricky.

And then the emotional stuff was, it wasn't easy.

That's the wrong word to use.

It was just that kind of stuff

comes a little more naturally.

And by committing to it, you just end up, you go there.

And when you're shouting so loud

for hours and hours, you actually,

'cause your, when your body feels in stress,

like it just tricks your mind.

And you were going for it so beautifully.

They had to put pads on the door

because Dichen's hands were,

Adam and I were worried about your hands.

And you were just fully present.

It was, it was heartbreaking to watch.

It was nice to be able to explore that

when it's not often explored.

I mean, I've seen it a little,

but it's not really a topic people,

you know, talk about very much.

I think it was important to the story

to really establish the relationship between Gemma and Mark,

and the ups and downs.

Like anyone who's ever been in a relationship knows,

and even Mark describes it to Innie Mark about

the ups and downs, and the intense love.

I think that in order to have intense love,

you kind of have to go through ups and downs together.

And that forges your relationship.

You know, when you have contrast of the beautiful, happy,

and just like everyday moments, with immense grief,

it solidifies that relationship like nothing else.

The depth is what creates the...

Yeah, The light.

The depth and the pain creates the growth,

and you grow together.

We just have such an amazing crew.

Like the hair and makeup trailer in the morning,

I feel like, is everyone's kind of place to start the day.

And it's so cliche, but it really does feel like a family.

Oh yeah, there's no, I said this in LA.

And I was like, maybe I don't know what I'm saying.

But there's no bad eggs.

Everyone's a good egg, you know.

If you like eggs.

If you like eggs.

They're very expensive in America right now, apparently.

But I didn't get to work with you

very much at all this year. Yeah, I wanted to.

And it was still limited even in season one, but.

They cut our scene where we were

supposed to hug in season one, Ms. Casey and Helly are.

Oh yeah.

And I, to this day, I'm like...

You regret not being able to do it.

I'm sad that I didn't get to hug you.

It would've been, yeah, it would've been-

Do you remember that scene? Yes.

And I, yeah, it disappeared.

I wanted them to hug.

Helly R. needs more women in her life.

No, that would've, that was a sweet little relationship.

Poor Ms. Casey was so worried for you.

Trying to-

Well, speak of Ms. Casey.

Yes. Ms. Casey.

Right.

What happens to her at the end?

But she's still, she's still there, right?

Somewhere.

She's still there.

Just like Helen is still there.

Just like Outie Mark is still there.

Yes, there's a lot of relationships going on.

Our love tetrahedron. Right.