Why Adam Scott had ‘difficulty’ keeping a straight face in ‘Severance’ Season 2
nypost.comSpoilers ahead for the third episode of “Severance” Season 2, “Who is Alive?” “Severance” star Adam Scott told the Post that the third episode was tough to film, because the actors were really working with live goats. “Britt [Lower] and I had a scene where we’re talking,” he said. “It’s like a serious scene between two people and no jokes…but every 10 or 15 seconds you had to shoo away a girl because they’re trying to eat your shoelaces or your pants.” Scott added, “Gwendoline Christie was in that scene, too.
That’s a scene where you had a difficulty keeping a straight face, because the baby goats wouldn’t stop trying to eat our clothing.”Now in its second season, AppleTV’s mystery box sci-fi drama “Severance” (new episodes out on Fridays) follows four of the “severed” employees” at the mysterious company Lumon: Mark (Scott), Helly (Britt Lower), Irving (John Turturro) and Dylan (Zach Cherry), who all underwent a procedure to separate their memories of what they do at work as “innies” from their “outie” personas in the outside world.
They work in a bureaucratic nightmare office space – so one of the enduring mysteries of the show is why Mark and Helly stumbled on a man feeding baby goats in an office conference room in Season 1.
Scott also told the Post that he knows the answer to that plot question. “What’s up with the goats? And what is Lumon doing?
