Each Severance fan has Ben Stiller to thank for saving Apple from themselves by stopping them from ruining our favourite present. Within the second episode of The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott, the co-hosts reveal the story of how Apple didn’t need Scott to play the lead position of Mark Scout, partially as a result of they didn’t see him as a sufficiently big star.
The world discovered that Apple had given a sequence order to Severance, with Scott hooked up because the lead, in early November 2019, per week after Apple TV+ formally debuted. Within the podcast episode, Stiller implies they have been engaged on Severance earlier than the streamer’s existence was publicly introduced, as he described the early expertise as “creating this present for a platform that didn’t exist but.” What we didn’t know on the time the sequence order made information is that Apple wasn’t satisfied Scott must be Mark, and a 12 months glided by with no new developments on the present as a result of they have been attempting to determine find out how to get Apple on board with Scott starring.
“There was a protracted strategy of speaking about different concepts. However, actually, I used to be not going to do the present if [Scott] wasn’t going to do it. I saved saying that to them, and so they have been like, ‘Okay, perhaps you’ll consider this actor. Possibly you’ll consider that actor,’” Stiller recollects.
Stiller was confused as to why the bigwigs at Apple have been dragging their ft on accepting Scott, however modified their minds as soon as they noticed Scott learn for the half. Taking all of it in stride, Scott humbly admits his star energy may not have been sufficient for the Apple head honchos. “I understood why they have been feeling this manner as a result of, the primary time I learn this script, my first intuition was: ‘There’s no means I’m going to finish up doing this. That is too good,’” Scott explains. “If I used to be Apple, I’d seemingly be wanting a large star to play this position.”
Since Apple got here to their senses, Scott has gone on to garner an Emmy nomination for Excellent Lead Actor in a Drama Collection and a Golden Globe nomination for Beat Actor in a Tv Collection — Drama for his impeccable portrayal of Mark on Severance. Apple have been saved from themselves, and all of us have Stiller and his year-long persistence to thank for it.