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‘Severance’ Standout Britt Lower on Unleashing a New Helly in Season 2: ‘Her Whole Consciousness Is Shifted’
"Severance" star Britt Lower shares how she tapped into Helly and Helena in the second season of the AppleTV+ hit.
In conversation with Variety shortly after the second season’s explosive finale, Lower unpacks Helly’s journey on the severed floor. Helly has a line in the finale that is so representative of the innie-outie dichotomy: “They give us half a life and expect us not to fight for it.” It feels like her entire journey has led her to that moment when she gets on the desk and pleads with the other innies. When Dylan lashes out at Helly over Irving’s “death” because Helena is her outie, she indignantly tells him, “I’m not her!” But when she and Mark say their goodbyes as he finishes the Cold Harbor file, she says, “I’m her.” What’s behind that change?
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