As "Severance" Season 2 continues its run on the TV schedule, I’m becoming more fascinated by Mark, Helly and Helena’s relationship with each passing episode. During their trip to Woe's Hollow, Irv figured out that Helly was actually Helena, which meant both her innie and outie have been romantically involved with Mark, and this week, Helena decided to go meet Mark’s outie. However, he wasn’t fully having it, and ultimately bolted away from the interaction. So, obviously, I had to ask Adam Scott and Ben Stiller why this happened.
While Mark’s innie now knows that he’s been spending a lot of time with Helena, his outie only knows her as an untouchable, powerful, corporate figure. So, when she meets him at this restaurant he’s feeling a lot of unsettling emotions, as Scott said during CinemaBlend’s interviews with the "Severance" cast.
00:05I think that he, you know, finds her and her family to be threatening.
00:13And what they've done to him and his family is horrifying.
00:17You know, I think face to face with Helena, they have a strange chemistry that I don't think either of them probably expected.
00:27But they start talking and they're oddly locked in with each other in a weird way.
00:33And then once he kind of snaps out of this weird sort of spell that he's under talking to this person, he has to get the hell out of there.
00:42Not only is the fact that he talked to her and saw her a huge piece of information, but he feels like maybe this person is is closing in.
00:52You know, as an audience, I think it's interesting because we as an audience know what those two people have, you know, the interaction they've had over the last few days, which has been quite intimate.
01:02Yeah. So, you know, there's always that question of what permeates the severance barrier.
