Severance's "Woe's Hollow" is nothing short of a showstopper — and not just because of its massive plot twist.
The fourth episode of Season 2 sees Innies Mark (Adam Scott), Helly (Britt Lower), Irving (John Turturro), and Dylan (Zach Cherry) return to the outside world for a Lumon-supervised field trip known as an Outdoor Retreat Team Building Occurrence, or ORTBO. Dressed in matching fur coats, the Innies hike through the snowy woods of Dieter Eagan National Forest, which is a far cry from the sterile labyrinth of Lumon's Severed Floor.
While every Innie actor has shot scenes as their Outie in the world beyond Lumon, filming "Woe's Hollow" was like nothing else on Severance.
"[The shoot] was over five weeks," Turturro told Mashable in a video call alongside Lower and Cherry. "It was something like doing a movie, like doing an independent film."
The new location for "Woe's Hollow" added new challenges for the Severence crew. "Just to get up [the mountain] took us a long time," Turturro said. "At night, when we came down in these little tractors, you're on the side of the road, and it's foggy and there's snow, you're thinking, 'we could go right off the side of that cliff over there!'"
"We had to work much more quickly," Lower said. "They would do our hair and makeup in the morning, and then we wouldn't have any touchups throughout the day because there wasn't time. Typically you have the hair and makeup team traveling, but we had to be really fleet-footed on the mountain, and we were racing against the sun setting."
"We won the race!" Cherry added. "We beat the sun every day."
With the snowy location came new outfits for the Innies, who we usually only see in office wear. "I really enjoyed not having to wear pantyhose and heels for the first time," Lower said.
Instead, costume designer Sarah Edwards dressed the Innies in long fur coats with matching hats, along with mountaineering boots and crampons to help with the extended hiking sequences.
"Those coats, they weighed around 30 pounds," Turturro said. "It was great, but it was really heavy. You were just soaked."
But there were some upsides to the constant hiking in heavy clothing. "By the end of the shoot, I'd put on quite a bit of calf muscle," Cherry said.
Severance Season 2 is now streaming on Apple TV+, with a new episode every Friday.
Topics Severance
