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Publicity stunt saw actors Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry and Patricia Arquette perform from inside a glass tank situated in the middle of the New York City station
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A lucky group of Severance fans were left surprised on Tuesday (14 January) when the leading stars from the Apple TV+ series appeared unannounced at New Yorkâs Grand Central Station to perform a publicity stunt.
Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry and Patricia Arquette, who all play employees at the fictional biotechnology company Lumon Industries in the series, acted in character while encased inside a giant glass box that recreated Lumonâs Macrodata Refinement department office.
Starring Scott and Lower as Lumon employees Mark S. and Helly, the psychological series sees Lumon staff undergo a procedure called âseveranceâ, which divides their work and home lives completely in a daring experiment to find a work-life balance. This means that the âseveredâ employees navigate through life as two distinct people with no knowledge or memory of the other.
The first series was released in 2022 to strong approval from critics, and the forthcoming second series â out on Friday 17 January â has already received overwhelmingly positive reviews.
During Tuesdayâs stunt to promote the second series, the actors passed the time cleaning the office carpet, completing their mysterious data organising tasks on their computers and improvising conversations with each other.
Meanwhile, the showâs director and executive producer, Ben Stiller, posted several images from the scene to his social media, writing, âGrand Central right now.â
Fans were astonished by the stunt, with one person on X/Twitter calling the idea âgeniusâ.
âI actually have a crazy amount of thoughts about the Severance actors playing their characters in a public glass box with fans everywhere filming, to market a show that is about privacy, identity, and what it means to be a person under constant surveillance. just genius,â they said.
Severanceâs Adam Scott in character as Mark S. at Grand Central Station (Ben Stiller via X/Twitter)Another added: âThe cast of Severance chilling in a glass tank in the middle of Grand Central is the type of entertainment marketing Iâve MISSED I feel so FULL.â
âImagine running late for your train and youâre like âsorry, i had to watch Mark S from Severance use a carpet sweeper!â added another.
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Try for free âSeveranceâ season two pop-up installation at Grand Central Station (Marion Curtis/StarPix for Apple)One person who missed out on seeing the action live, wrote: âI donât really care if the Severance pop up at Grand Central happened to you. it should have happened to me instead.â
For the forthcoming series, new cast members include Game of Thronesâ Gwendoline Christie, Search Partyâs Alia Shawkat, Bob Balaban, Merritt Wever, Robby Benson, Stefano Carannante, John Noble, Ălafur Darri and Sarah Bock.
Britt Lower and Adam Scott in âSeveranceâ (Apple )For a reminder of what happened in the Severance season one finale, read on. But be warned â spoilers follow.
It was revealed that Helly Râs Outie â the person she is on the outside â is actually Lumon CEO Jame Eaganâs newly severed daughter, Helena Eagan, and sheâs just announced to a party full of Lumon shareholders the company is torturing its severed employees â despite Ms Cobelâs (Patricia Arquette) huge efforts to prevent her from doing so.
Markâs Innie, meanwhile, found out that Outie Mark has a supposedly dead wife called Gemma (Dichen Lachman), who we know is actually alive because in Lumon she is wellness director Miss Casey. He admitted the shocking news to a room of guests at Devon (Jen Tullock) and Rickenâs (Michael Chernus) book launch party.
Innie Irving (Turturro) went to the home of his romantic interest, now-retired severed Lumon employee Burt (Christopher Walken), whose Outie has a partner. And finally Dylanâs (Cherry) heroic hour-long battle to hold the switches keeping the mental gate open for his colleaguesâ Innies, so they could find help on the outside, was shut off by Milchick who pushed him to the ground.
Severance season two is released on Friday 17 January.
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