Ben Steller has an ideal response to reports on the troubled production of Severance

Although “Severance” fans have a lot of praise about the show, they will also be happy to admit that they can experience their patience. Not only did we disturb us with the reintegration story, but the waiting between the two seasons 1 and 2 was long. On April 18, 2022, the conclusion of the first season Leave the fans on huge CliffhangerOne of them had to wait until January 17, 2025 to see a solution.

This waiting time is overcome between the seasons only by “Stranger Things”, which can Blame on the hypothesis of the visual effects of the delayAnd “orgasm” where Everything that can happen is a mistake He has mistake With the production of season 3. So, what is the excuse of the “chapter” producers? Some fans speculated that there was a drama behind the scenes. Rumors were Nourished by reports From the fighting between the exhibitors Ben Steller and Dan Ericsson, and a “toxic environment” in general. In a conversation An interview with a varietyHowever, Ben Steller closed these rumors:

“Everyone is progressing in the show. There was no strangeness in our presentation between anyone. (…) I don’t think there is any creative process that does not contain some conflict, and this is really important, because you are wondering and constantly trying to make sure that the options you make are those that will be steadfast within two years.”

Steller also said that he does not think that many conversations behind the scenes should necessarily announce: “I do not want to tell people of the internal work of what is going on, frankly, it is special.”

In order to be fair in the show, the production of “Severance” for the second season suffered a lot from the 2023 book strike, which is what The industry is to wait 148 days. The book strike is the reason behind most of the delays of TV programs that returned in 2024, and it was especially destroyed given that Hollywood had only recovered from only from Disorder in the huge industry that was the joint epidemic.

“It took some time to write the second season.” In an interview 2024. Then we started shooting in October 2022, and closed us in May (2023). At that stage, we completed about 7 of our ten episodes, then we had to reassemble our ranks after the strike.

Dan Ericsson explained that, in addition to the strike, “Severance” is a complex offer to write. Micro -characters and disgusting tension that fans love is not something that can be pulled quickly. As Ericsson said:

“Each character has two life – basically, two characters – we expand. For me, writing was the most stable part of the process because there were many ways we could go. Sometimes we reach that we reach something good on paper, and then we will not get there until we get there until we realize: this was not the case.

You can listen to our interview with Erickson in this episode of /Film PodCast: