“Severance” has become used to launching actors who have made their names in the world of comedy, which is logical since the popular Apple TV + SCI-FI series is partly a dark comedy itself-especially in season 1. The jump.
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Stiller has been working as a director for many years, so it was not too surprising to see him attached to the show when he started. But viewers have probably missed that the former star of “Zoolander” also has a camée on the screen (or at least, on the speaker) in season 1 “Severance”.
The scene in question occurs in season 1, episode 8, “What’s for Dinner?”, Directed by Stiller. Helly R. (Britt Lower) finally finishes her first MDR file, and her computer monitor congratulates her in fashion typical of Lumon Industries. Accentuated by good taste flute music, a pixelated video plays in the style of a bad PlayStation 1 kinematics, in which a digitized avatar of Kier Eagan praise. “I knew you could do it, Helly R.,” said Kier, in a voice that, if you knew how to listen to him, surprisingly resembles that of Stiller. “Even in your darkest moments, I could see you arriving here. By refining your Macrodata file, you brought glory to this business and me.” After a pregnant break, the bizarre digital Kier continues: “I … I love you. But now I have to go away.”
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Ben Stiller was not credited with having expressed Kier Eagan
Britt Lower confirmed that Stiller was the voice of the founder of Lumon in 2022 in an interview with One online. “There is a small Easter egg in one voice,” said the actress. “If you pay special attention, it’s well.” Stiller joked on the unrecovered role in a more recent episode of The Podcast SeverancePosted on January 15, 2025.
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“This is not the real Kier Eagan, because we hear Kier Eagan’s real recording in episode 3,” said Stiller. “But he is an actor whom they hired to make the voice for the lively video of congratulations. Obviously an outside actor who needed the concert.” When you have someone from the profile of Stiller who works behind the camera, it is inevitable that opportunities for small cameos arise, although it has surely missed by most viewers – at least during their first time.
Marc Geller is the actor mainly responsible for playing Kier on the show when these opportunities arise.
Severance has had other unwanted votes of voice
In Season 2 of the section “The tendency of unwanted voice came up in animated videos of Lumon continues. When the MDR team is brought back to work, we show it a video describing the many changes that have been established since their uprising at the end of season 1. Anyone who has heard Keanu Reeves can quickly say that it is him.
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Sarah Sherman of the reputation of “Saturday Night Live” also expresses a water tower in the same video, although its part is credited at the end of the episode.
Due to its critical praise and the Zeitgeist around it, the “Séèvée” has become a popular place for the big names that seek to appear in Brriefer. Gwendoline Christie plays a small but pivotal role in season 2, for example, and it is easy to imagine even more stars appearing in unique roles in the confirmed Season 3 of the section “.
All episodes of “Severance” are streaming on Apple TV +.
