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‘Severance’ Stars John Turturro and Christopher Walken on That ‘Dinner From Hell’ and Why Irving Visits Burt’s House: ‘Curiosity, Insecurity, Jealousy’

'Severance' stars John Turturro and Christopher Walken unpack that tense dinner scene and discuss working together as longtime friends.

For Helly R. (Britt Lower), it was one insensitive joke about Burt ( Christopher Walken) and Irving’s ( John Turturro) relationship that gave her away as Helena Eagan in Episode 4. “Someone can be charming and then they’re a monster,” Turturro tells Variety ahead of the season’s sixth episode, which sees Irving, after being permanently dismissed from Lumon, get a long-awaited glimpse at Burt’s outie life as a married man. Below, Turturro talks about collaborating with longtime friend Walken for that tense “threesome” dinner, his unique techniques for getting into the right emotional mindset and working with Lower on that heated drowning scene in Episode 4.

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