Although he hasn’t appeared on-screen in both season of “Severance,” Ben Stiller has nonetheless garnered a status as one of many “stars” of the present. He is had a significant hand behind the digital camera as a director and producer on the sequence, and his standing as a high-profile actor in his personal proper has bolstered that status past what of us in manufacturing roles usually obtain. Regardless of all that, Stiller has avoided making any on-screen cameo appearances on the favored Apple TV+ sequence — although the choice was briefly on the desk.
In a latest interview with Variety, Stiller and sequence star Adam Scott mentioned numerous elements of the present’s manufacturing, together with “Severance” season 3, which is currently in development. Throughout the dialogue, Stiller revealed that there was an thought again in season 1 that he would possibly pop up on digital camera as a health care provider character, however that these plans had been finally scrapped. “We talked about it. There was a storyline that we had been fascinated by, nevertheless it simply did not really feel proper,” Stiller advised the outlet. “It is nice that I am not in it. I am very completely satisfied to not have my face on the billboard.”
He clarified that the hypothetical character in query had nothing to do with the very actual physician characters who pop up close to the end of “Severance” season 2 as a part of Lumon Industries’ mysterious “Chilly Harbor” undertaking. Nonetheless, it is simple to see how Stiller’s canceled position might have performed into comparable storylines.
Ben Stiller does have a cameo in Severance, however solely along with his voice
Whereas Stiller appears completely satisfied to stay behind the digital camera on “Severance,” he has leant his abilities to the undertaking in a small approach. Stiller cameos as the voice of Kier Eagan close to the top of season 1, within the sequence the place Helly R. (Britt Decrease) lastly completes her first Macrodata Refinement file. For her efforts, she is graced with a weird animated video of the Lumon founder thanking her personally for her arduous work.
“I knew you might do it, Helly R.,” Kier says, in a voice Stiller followers will certainly acknowledge in the event that they hear carefully. “Even in your darkest moments, I may see you arriving right here.” The video shortly devolves into full-on cult mode when the digital Kier tells Helly, “I like you. However now I need to away.”
Stiller is not the one actor to contribute some portion of Kier’s personage throughout the present. The unusual outdated man, lengthy useless (so far as we all know), looms over all the sequence like some darkish god, influencing his firm’s grim experiments from past the grave. Save for the being useless and the entire cult factor, it is not in contrast to the position of an government producer, so maybe it is apt that this was the position that satisfied Stiller to lend his abilities to the on-screen motion of “Severance,” albeit only for a second.
