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‘Severance’ Star Dichen Lachman Breaks Down That ‘Heartbreaking’ Gemma Episode: ‘Part of Her Is Gone’


Dichen Lachman, who plays Gemma/Ms. Casey on 'Severance,' unpacks this week's heartbreaking episode and explains Gemma's escape plan.

I’m talking about Gemma, of course, whose wellbeing and whereabouts have been central to the mystery of “Severance.” In this week’s episode, we finally check in with Mark’s (not dead after all) wife, played by Dichen Lachman with a sexy coolness — and then an emptiness — in a series of heartbreaking flashbacks and harrowing glimpses of the Testing Floor. We don’t know exactly what will happen to Gemma once Mark finishes that file, which has been touted as a major landmark for Lumon, but it doesn’t sound good for our estranged lovebirds. Below, Lachman discusses this week’s episode of “Severance” with Variety, unpacking Gemma’s captivity and “heartbreaking” escape attempt, and theorizing about how Lumon faked her death in the first place.

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