Severance stars Britt Long, John Turturro and Zach Cherry break the explosive, snow episode that changes everything – Variety

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The sky is the limit literally for our fearless macrodite refineries.

The fourth episode of the second season of Severrence, Woe’s Hollow, launches the brand (Adam Scott), Irving (John Turturro), Heli (Brit Lower) and Dylan (Zack Cherry) in some unfamiliar terrain: “About fuck , as Dylan says.

After unexpectedly waking up in the snowy desert of Dieter Aigan’s national forest, dressed to the nine in matching black leather coats and hats, Innies encounter an old television trolley school. Mr. Milchik (Tramell Tillman) explains what is happening through a granular video: with the blessings of their outiies were sent to a two-day outdoor event and a team collection (ortbo, briefly), in response to their “desire to see the outside world S ”

It seizes MDR members striving to find a sacred text from Kier Aigan – as the fearsome “twins” of every Innie silently guided the road. When they find Thomas, it reveals that Dieter Aigan is a brother of Kir -twin who died in the Woe cavity shortly after he was caught refining himself in the forest.

As they make their way to the hollow, IRV continues to take place in the eyes, privately warning Mark that he does not trust her, and again calls her story “Night Gardener” after overtime (OTC). The tension is rising as the IRV is becoming more and more hostile to the group, but Milchick is looking chic, as always in the completely white winter clothing, the attachments just in time to dispel the situation.

He takes Innies into a small waterfall (who tells them he is the highest on the planet) before leading them to a nearby campsite with Miss Huang. When Heli visits the IRV tent and tries to reconcile herself, he again questions what she really saw during the OTC, and she continues to insist that she is real.

In the evening, Milchik ends the hollow history of the poor, describing in detail the first meeting of Kyer with a temper of the poor: “Gun Bride, half the height of a natural woman.” Heli explodes, laughing at the fairy tale and provokes angry, burning from Milchick’s rose reaction. While Dylan and Mark laugh with her, Irving does not have fun, he repeatedly presses for details about Helly’s OTC claims. Irv throws himself to Mark (“Using your students to love her while your foreign person’s wife gets out somewhere”) when he calls him to postpone while Heli mocks that IRV will never see Burt again S “Fuck all of you,” Irv shouts as he invades the forest.

Mark checks Helley in her tent and they have sex. Heli admits she is not honest with what happened during OTC, sharing that he doesn’t like who’s outside. As Mark reassures her, his recent reintegration is catching up with him and he sees visions on her face to blend in with Jema/Miss Casey (Dihen Lahman).

Lost in the forest, Irving dreams of a fruitless forest and MDR booths – with Burt (Christopher Wower) behind a desk. He is disturbed by the vision of the epitome temper of the poor and wakes up with the beginning.

In the morning, Irving finds Helly on the waterfall, exhorting her for her harsh words from the previous night and again insists that she is not really his colleague, and her external: “Helly has never been cruel.” He forcibly immerses her head underwater , since repeatedly requires a Milchik to return the real Helle. She instructed Milchick to comply, and he “removed the Glasgow block” radio stations, confirming IRV theory that Helle is indeed her external Helena Aigan since OTC. (Meaning for the whole season 2.)

Irving apologizes as he holds a visibly confused Helle, and Mark rushes aside. Milchik instructs Irring that he is immediately and permanently terminated, while emotional Dylan asks Irving to forgive him for not trusting him earlier.

“It’s fine,” Irving tells him. “Just don’t forget, hook up there.”

Milchik walks Irving deep into the forest. “It is as if you, Irving B., have never even existed or have taken a single breath on this earth. Kier’s mercy followed you in the eternal dark, “he says, as IRV’s Outie regains consciousness and the episode ends.

Lower, Turturro and Cherry talked to Variety For the explosive episode, the unpacking of Heli’s great revelation, the aggression of Irving and Dylan’s emotional reconciliation.

Brit, this episode reveals that we are actually seeing Helena to perform heli throughout the season so far. How did you manage this huge challenge as an actor?

Britt more: I’m not sure I can explain it. These are two sides of the same person, so they share a body and subconscious, but they are in many different circumstances, and both are caught in different ways by the same company. Helena is trapped in a family way. She is trapped in a family she has not chosen. This particular family is responsible for a company that has great control in erudition. It has a cult quality of the company.

It made sense to me through the brilliant writing that Dan Erickson made that a person raised in this environment with high control would have the most unrestrained inner child. And so I somehow thought about it as an inner child against the inner critic. We all have these parts of ourselves. The part of us are more free and alive and in connection with the things we were when we were a child. This feeling of who you are, is just pure as a child. And then is the part of you that is hardened and conditioned and had to be composed by navigating all the expectations of life and family, especially in the case of Helena and the expectations of her strange dad.

It was really interesting to be in the perspective of Helly R., like Helena, like Brit, looking around. I felt a lot of sorrow for Helly R. that her identity in her chosen family was abused, took advantage and that her friends had been lured. And then I felt a lot of sorrow for Helena that she became this part of herself, trying to combine herself, but she couldn’t. It does not fully belong there and does not actually win the connections and the way they connect with it. I just tried to have a lot of empathy for both perspectives and just attend what is happening.

John, this episode felt like a boiling point for the new Irving we met this season. This character, who was so gentle, is now completely radicalized. How have you brought it so far?

John Turburo: I think he probably stems from his origin and his training, if he was in the military or not. There is something that he is somehow connected to Dylan now, and the characters of Adam and Brit, and that some has something he just takes immediately: the whole group is at risk, not just for him. He accepts it more and further. And then, since he has this dream, this is the last piece of this puzzle.

Sometimes people are revealed with one gesture or one sentence. I direct movies and I threw people based on a little thing they did. I think he takes this and just accepts it completely and is not really interested in what will happen or the consequences of his actions because he feels as if they were spying.

You have affected the relationship between Irving and Dylan, which has been expanded this season. Zack, why do you think Dylan is so desperate to keep Irving in the office and why was this moment of reconciliation so important at the end of the episode?

Zac Cherry: I think in the first season, Dylan begins to realize that he may be interested not to try to go alone and begins to build these relationships with the rest of the office. And then, as he learns more about the life of his appearance, he begins to realize what he lacks and so much is about a relationship. Irving is someone who is able to make this really strong connection with the fact that he somehow neglects a little this season because he thinks of his thing. So I think all this species gather for him in this episode.

I feel that Dylan, whom we knew last season would react very differently during this main scene on a waterfall.

Cherry: Yes! I think this is one of the fun things for this season, learns more about the characters and then watching them learn more about themselves and seeing how it changes how they behave.

Helena laughed when Milchik finished Dieter Aigan’s story. What was behind that moment?

Dolno: I think it was the accumulation of so many years of desire to make fun of mythology and review the ways in which this scene in myth uses a very colorful language to say in principle: “This man was punished for this erotic act with yourself in the forest. “I think she gets a chance to laugh at this through this rebellious version of her. She is like,” This is the filter that would do this and not suffer the consequences. “

The whole show affects the idea of ​​bodily autonomy, but Mark and Heli/Elena become intimate really bring it to the fore. Was it something that was in your mind when you all approached this episode?

Dolno: There was always something in Season 1, which I found was strange in Helly’s attempt to wake up in office clothing that she did not put her own body. And all of these initiates go through this experience. It’s like the most basic free will you have in the morning: what clothes do you wear?

This interview was edited and condensed.