'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today

《采访》:本·斯蒂勒谈《遣散费》、出卖和今天的犹太人

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2025-01-11

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The actor-director discusses the long-awaited return of the hit series, the comedies that made him a star and growing up with his famous parents.
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  • From the New York Times, this is the interview.

  • I'm David Marchese.

  • The long awaited Emmy Award winning series Severance returns for its second season next week.

  • I've seen a bunch of the new episodes which have some real surprises in them and I can say

  • that I'm very eager to see other fans reaction to how the show has moved forward with its story.

  • By way of a reminder,

  • that story is about a rebellious of employees at the mysterious and probably malevolent Lumen Industries.

  • Those employees are office drones whose consciousness has been artificially separated between their work selves,

  • also known as their innies, and their outies, their selves away from the office.

  • That sense of a divided self is one to which Ben Stiller,

  • who co directed and co executive produces the series, can probably relate.

  • It's actually one of the things that's most intriguing to me about him.

  • He's a hugely successful comedic actor from mainstream hits like Meet the Parents

  • and Night at the Museum Museum who has gradually stepped away from acting in favor of his first love,

  • directing as a director.

  • He's a much more subversive and distinctive stylist than his biggest acting roles might suggest.

  • Take, for example, more serious projects like his crime drama series Escape of Dannemora, as well as Severance,

  • of course, and also his off the wall comedy satires like Cable Guy and Zoolander,

  • the latter of which he also starred in.

  • So I don't think I'm overreaching in suggesting that there is some innie outie severance style tension.