Severance-heads, please welcome Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard into the fold.
Adam Scott recently discussed his mind-bending Apple TV+ show with the Nobody Wants This actress, and Bell revealed that she and her husband are among the sci-fi series’ most obsessed —and vocal — fans.
“Now seems like a good place for you to maybe officially apologize for the voicemails that you and Dax leave me,” Scott said during their new conversation for Variety‘s Actors on Actors series.
“I would try, but I’m not that good of an actor,” Bell responded. “The endings to every episode of Severance are so biologically frustrating that I don’t know how you guys expect anyone to sleep after an episode with that level of a cliffhanger.”
Bell then confirmed that she and her husband blow up Scott’s voicemail after episodes finish. “What Dax and I tend to do is, when we see someone whose work we love or whose work frustrates us — as in your case — we leave you a nice, long, detailed, unedited voice memo,” she said. “And you got a lot of those.”
Scott, who worked with Bell on Party Down and Parks and Recreation, confessed that he’s saved the furious messages. “I’ve kept all of them,” he said. “They’re hilarious and deeply flattering, but also deeply insulting.”
Bell recalled her favorite of her husband’s impassioned voice notes. “[He] pretty much screamed into the voice memo, ‘Hey, Adam! Kristen just fell out of a two-story window,'” she said. “‘I bet you’d like to know how she’s doing. I’ll tell you next week!'”
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Scott also revealed that Bell and Shepard pestered him about Severance‘s shooting schedule, as the show took three years to return after its first season wrapped. “You guys called while we were in the midst of shooting season 2 and just said, ‘Hey, just curious, are you guys shooting this one minute per week?'” he remembered the couple asking. “‘Why is it taking so f—ing long?'”
The actor joked that season 3 will be delayed even more solely to spite Bell and Shepard. “Just because you guys left that message, it’s now going to take seven years for the next season,” Scott said.
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In fact, shortly after the series was renewed, Severance creator Dan Erickson told Entertainment Weekly that he’s striving to deliver the third season more swiftly than the previous one. “Having done it twice now, there is more of a sense of understanding procedurally what works and how to streamline it,” he said. “So our goal is never to draw out people’s pain for three years. And I hope that we don’t have to do that again.”
