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Britt Lower as HELENA EAGAN in "Trojan's Horse".

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https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/s/3qzNoMPJCd

https://www.televisionacademy.com/features/news/online-originals/my-seven-shows/adam-scott

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(source)

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if any of you are wondering i am perfectly fine and not going insane about this! i am doing okay!

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Zach Woods explaining how Jared Dunn is like Pinocchio.

june 1st, 2016 / april 17th, 2017

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I want to talk about how REAL it was for her initial boldness to start faltering during this scene. Like, the way she’s fidgeting on her feet before “I want my own” and how she doesn’t raise her eyes up to Mark’s until the words have left her mouth.

Then there’s the little stammer while she asks if he’d like the same, because he hadn’t answered her yet and you can see her nerves doubling down when she looks away from his face again. Those wide, anxious and hopeful eyes completely betray the brave front she’s trying to maintain.

THEN the subtle softening of her face when he finally answers and gives her that tiny smile. You can see every part of her literally sink with relief. Britt Lower, the actress that you are 😭🙏

And don’t get me started on Helly’s little smile and the way she beckons Mark to follow. Although we didn’t see it, she absolutely sussed out the desk room on her way back to find him just before.

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zach woods talks about jared’s backstory. (source)

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Zach Woods explaining how Jared Dunn is like Pinocchio.

june 1st, 2016 / april 17th, 2017

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if any of you are wondering i am perfectly fine and not going insane about this! i am doing okay!

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https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://fycextras.com/severance/*

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https://fycextras.com/severance/11-13

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Does the word realism have any meaning to you as an actor? No. When you say realism, I think of naturalism, and I think about natural acting. And when I think about natural acting, I think about natural behavior. And I think sometimes that destroys movies, you know? Because we don’t just want to see imitations of life. We want to see something that is beyond that. Cinema is not just about telling stories. Everybody clings to this. Telling stories, telling stories, telling stories! It’s about light. It’s about space. It’s about tone. It’s about color. It’s about people having experiences in front of you, where, if it’s transparent enough, they can experience it with you. You become them. They become you. That’s the communion. That’s the experience.

--Willem Dafoe summing up my feelings about the obsession with realism and an impoverished notion of "storytelling" in film in an interview with Matt Zoller Seitz

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Research Dump

kuleshov effect

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan#:~:text=McLuhan%20proposes%20that%20media%20themselves,but%20by%20its%20own%20characteristics.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/zbq436/severance_character_realization_turning_points/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SeveranceAppleTVPlus/comments/1jn22sh/helly_rebelled_because_her_outtie_already_saw/

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Severance Crew Interviews

Season 2:

Season 1:

Production Design: v-goldderby / slashfilm / theverge /

Prop Master: nyt /

Costume: flickeringmyth /

Casting: awardsradar / gamerant / dailyactor /

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Scene Study: BLL

Script / Video