Severance Season 1 Options A Ben Stiller Cameo Most Followers Missed

“Severance” has made a behavior of casting actors who made their names within the comedy world, which is smart on condition that the favored Apple TV+ sci-fi collection is partly a darkish comedy itself — particularly in season 1. That mixing of comedic chops with grounded drama and high-concept science fiction concepts is on the core of what makes the present so fascinating, and the comedy pedigree extends behind the digicam too, with Ben Stiller serving as one of many collection’ key creatives from the leap.

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Stiller has labored as a director for a few years, so it wasn’t too stunning to see him hooked up to the present again when it started. However viewers possible missed that the previous “Zoolander” star additionally has an on-screen (or not less than, on-speaker) cameo in “Severance” season 1.

The scene in query happens in season 1, episode 8, “What’s for Dinner?”, directed by Stiller. Helly R. (Britt Decrease) lastly completes her first MDR file, and her laptop monitor congratulates her in typical cultish Lumon Industries vogue. Accented by some tasteful pan flute music, a pixelated video performs within the type of a nasty PlayStation 1 cutscene, wherein a digitized avatar of Kier Eagan provides reward. “I knew you could possibly do it, Helly R.,” Kier says, in a voice that, if you already know to hear for it, sounds strikingly like Stiller’s. “Even in your darkest moments, I might see you arriving right here. In refining your macrodata file, you will have introduced glory to this firm, and to me.” After a pregnant pause, the weird digital Kier continues, “I … I really like you. However now I have to away.”

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Britt Decrease confirmed that Stiller was the voice of Lumon’s founder again in 2022 in an interview with ET On-line. “There’s somewhat Easter egg of a voice,” the actress stated. “For those who’re paying shut consideration, it is Ben’s.” Stiller joked concerning the uncredited position on a newer episode of The Severance Podcast, revealed on January 15, 2025.

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“It isn’t the true Kier Eagan, as a result of we hear the true Kier Eagan recording in episode 3,” Stiller stated. “However that is some actor that they employed to do the voice for the congratulatory animated video. Clearly an out-of-work actor who wanted the gig.” When you will have somebody of Stiller’s profile working behind the digicam, it is inevitable that alternatives for small cameos will come up, although this one was certainly missed by most viewers — not less than on their first time by way of.

Marc Geller is the actor primarily liable for taking part in Kier on the present when these alternatives come up.

In “Severance” season 2, the development of uncredited voice cameos in animated Lumon company movies continues. When the MDR crew is introduced again to work, they’re proven a video describing the various adjustments which were instituted since their rebellion on the finish of season 1. The entire thing is narrated by an anthropomorphized model of the Lumon workplace, and whereas the position is not credited, anybody who’s ever heard Keanu Reeves earlier than will shortly have the ability to inform that it is him.

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Sarah Sherman of “Saturday Night time Dwell” fame additionally voices a water tower in the identical video, although her half is credited on the finish of the episode.

As a consequence of its crucial acclaim and the zeitgeist round it, “Severance” has develop into a preferred spot for large names trying to make briefer appearances. Gwendoline Christie performs a small however pivotal position in season 2, as an example, and it is easy to think about much more stars popping up in one-off roles within the confirmed “Severance” season 3.

All episodes of “Severance” are streaming on Apple TV+.