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Severance’s Biggest Wild Card
Britt Lower had to deepen the war within her character(s) in the show’s second season.
Britt Lower faced a nesting doll of an acting challenge in Severance ’s second season by portraying disparate characters: Helena Eagan, the cold, calculating heiress to the Lumon corporation, and her defiant Innie, Helly R. You get the sense that Helly — who possesses free will, acerbic wit, and close bonds with her colleagues in macrodata refinement — is someone Helena could have become if she hadn’t been groomed by her father, Jame, to take over the family empire. In the combustible finale, directed by Ben Stiller and written by showrunner Dan Erickson, both Mark S. (Adam Scott) and Helly make drastic choices that will inevitably set off further hostilities between the Innies and the Outies: After succeeding in an escape attempt to free his Outie’s captive wife, Gemma (Dichen Lachman), Mark S. remains and runs hand-in-hand through the severed floor with his redheaded love. “She’s waging a war inside of herself within the same body,” the actor tells me during a recent makeshift art session on a bench at the Pratt Institute Sculpture Park, adding touches of paint and marker to our shared canvas.
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