Anyone who watched the first season of Severance pay is well aware of how long it took for season two to get here. Part of that is due to reasons beyond the series’ control – the writers and actors strikes in 2023 have set back many Hollywood productions – and part of that was Ben Stiller’s (and apparently, but to a lesser extent, co-creator Dan Erickson). ) thanks to ) perfectionism. Last month, the duo said Vanity Fair that they often went back to the drawing board, to the point that expensive sets made specifically for the series were ultimately no longer used in the show.

Today, The New Yorker published a profile from lead actor Adam Scott, who re-explores the nearly three-year gap since the last season of Severance pay– one of the longest television series between the first and second seasons, the magazine notes. Aside from the delays, it was also just a long shoot: 168 days, Stiller said. For those interested in mathematics, that’s about five and a half months. Taking weekends into account, it’s significantly more than half a year. Scott himself spends a lot of time shooting and reshooting his scenes more than ten times, or “as many as they give me before we absolutely have to move on.”

Elsewhere in the profile, Stiller and Erickson elaborate on some of the previously reported delays. “I don’t think Ben would mind me saying that part of the reason it took so long is because Ben is a perfectionist,” Erickson said, and that “there are times when there are seven of us have written episodes, and we’ll have a conversation, and Ben or someone else will say, “Well, I think this detail could be better,” and I’ll sort of say, “Wait a minute, we’d have to do every other episode again.” rewrite.”’ – and we did that often. As the months went by, it was a scary process.” Author Rachel Syme reveals that Erickson emailed her afterwards to clarify some of his comments and that “it would be inaccurate to say that there were production delays with Ben Stillers Superpower as a perfectionist,” which to an outsider gives the impression that he cared at least a little bit. You can read the entire article Here.