The cast and creators of Severance stopped by San Diego Comic-Con 2022 to share a few behind-the-scenes stories from the Apple TV+ series' first season, including that the lights from the big "Dance Break" scene were a complete and wonderful surprise to the cast.
Adam Scott, who stars as Mark Scout in Severance, discussed the memorable scene from Episode 7 around the 25-minute mark, saying that the crew did "not tell us that those lights were installed and that it was going to happen like that."
While the lights by themselves would have been a nice treat, they were especially welcome considering the actors had been filming the season over the course of ten months during the COVID-19 lockdown.
"Everything is a big deal for us down there,” Scott shared.
“We had no music for, like, a year,” star Britt Lower added. “We were discovering our hips in the moment.”
Alongside the Dance Break story, it was also revealed that Severance's first season was filmed like a movie, all out of sequence, and not episode to episode.
Severance creator/writer Dan Erickson also talked about how he had to stop reading Reddit theories about the show because "sometimes they have ideas that are better than what I thought of."
The team wasn't quite ready to discuss the much-anticipated second season, but Erickson did tease that it will "continue building out the world a little bit more and being able to see, with this one slight tweak to reality, what the different ramifications of that would be."
For more on Severance, check out our review of the premiere, our explainer of the ending, and how Severance hid a depressing Easter Egg on its keyboards.
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