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James Le Gros Spent Two Years Figuring Out His Severance Character
“It doesn’t ever leave you, because you know you’re going to be called to task at some point … The ghosts in their relationship, maybe that helped.”
They belonged to Charlotte, whose passing has only further fractured Harmony’s relationship with her aunt Sissy (Tony winner and four-time Oscar nominee Jane Alexander), a Lumon true believer suspicious of her niece’s falling-out with the Eagans. For decades, Le Gros’s rugged handsomeness and quirky accent work brought lived-in texture to a number of cult classics ( Near Dark, Point Break, Drugstore Cowboy), critically acclaimed TV series ( Ally McBeal, Mildred Pierce, Justified), and indie films ( Support the Girls, Showing Up, Good One). In “Sweet Vitriol,” his Hampton is a gravelly voiced, ether-dealing diner owner who has a long history with Harmony — they worked in the factory together, still spark with romantic chemistry, and newly share a burn-it-all-down ideology when it comes to anything Lumon.
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