The ‘Severance’ Season 2 Premiere’s (Unconfirmed, Seemingly Large) Film-Star Cameo, Mentioned
Main spoilers for the Severance Season 2 premiere, “Hey, Ms. Cobel,” under.
After almost a three-year wait, Apple TV+’s Severance has returned to streaming screens, bringing with it a handful of solutions to the questions left hanging after that hell of a season cliffhanger. However out of every part requested and answered within the premiere, one of many greatest lingering queries considerations the voice actor behind the episode’s personified model of the Lumon constructing itself. Keep on with us right here.
Across the 27-minute mark of the premiere, “Hey, Ms. Cobel,” our beloved innies—Mark (Adam Scott), Helly (Britt Decrease), Dylan (Zach Cherry), and Iriving (John Turturro)—are lastly again collectively after spending many of the episode aside within the wake of their rise up on the finish of the primary season. Their reunion is lower brief when menacing supervisor Seth Milchick (Tramell Tillman) trots the quartet to the famed Break Room for potential punishment as in episodes previous.
As a substitute, the 4 view an animated company video, which recaps the occasions of the previous couple of episodes—the so-called “MDR Rebellion”—with Claymation-style visuals that includes every of the sequence leads, earlier than utilizing the incident to point out how the corporate is altering within the wake of the 4’s actions. However the video begins with an look by the Lumon Administrative constructing itself, personified as a cartoonish, Clippy-like character. “Oh, hello. You most likely don’t acknowledge me from this angle,” the voice cheekily remarks.
When you don’t have AppleTV+, you’ll be able to try an official clip that an enterprising Reddit person has uploaded that options a number of the voiceover, whose tenor and tone sounds uncannily like that of…Keanu Reeves. No, we will not say for certain but, nevertheless it actually sounds like none apart from Mr. Wick himself because the voice of the Lumon constructing (enter prerequisite “Whoa” right here).
We are saying sounds as a result of there’s no official voice actor listed within the credit within the screeners offered for critics forward of time for the self-identified “Lumon.” There may be, nonetheless, a credit score for present Saturday Night time Dwell solid member Sarah Sherman because the Water Tower, with whom Lumon briefly chats. The entire sequence comes with an air of secrecy, even by Severance requirements; it was one of many handful of plot factors critics have been explicitly requested to not write about or focus on in pre-air protection. And when reached for remark, Apple declined to share any additional details about the voice actor’s identification with GQ. Nonetheless, give it a pay attention and inform us it’s not Keanu—or somebody doing among the best Reeves impressions ever.
This wouldn’t be Reeves’ first foray into voice performing: He’s taken on plenty of high-profile gigs in recent times, together with his current portrayal of Shadow the Hedgehog in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and a significant position within the online game Cyberpunk 2077 as legendary franchise character Johnny Silverhand. It might additionally not be the primary time Reeves and Severance director Ben Stiller have crossed paths professionally—legend has it that Stiller initially needed Reeves for the position of film star Tugg Speedman in his 2008 movie Tropic Thunder, a job Stiller himself ended up taking over. So, certain, audiences might have waited nearly three years for extra Severance—but when it’s actually Keanu, meaning Stiller and Reeves have waited roughly 17 years to make one thing collectively. Regardless, Severance is again on its thriller bullshit (complimentary), and if that is what Stiller and sequence Dan Erickson are popping out of the gate with, who is aware of what different surprises await.
