How we are getting thereexactlyis one thing.
But withSeverance, it’s like a whole different world.
What is the origin of things?
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Where can it go?Things are being decided as we move through it.
ARQUETTE: In a weird way,I go back to my experience onMedium.
Sometimes, those turn out to be great, and sometimes, they turn out to be wrong.
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So, there’s that part of it.
Now you need the next season.
And Dan [Erickson], too.
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He’s very much a novice at all of this.
Did you have conversations with Dan about filling in those backstory gaps ahead of time?
There’s this whole other world.
Within this world, there are a lot of layers of memories that now, I have.
Aunt Sissy had been a part of it, who raised her.
I don’t know that Aunt Sissy hadalwaysbeen a part of it, actually.
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How did you approach the dynamic between Cobel and Hampton, who clearly have such a big history?
ARQUETTE: I think it was childhood sweethearts.
Thats what we had talked about, too, with Ben in those days.
There was a childhood sweetheart kind of memory thing going on.
Oddly enough,I’ve known James [Le Gros] since I was a teenager.
Then, to be up there in such a specific place, Newfoundland, it’s so strange.
It’s so cut off from the world that it really is its own time warp.
It starts to come together in this weird way.
What was the experience like, filming there?
ARQUETTE: Very much so.The terrain of that place is the terrain of her family, her actual family.
It’s not warm.
Its not a safe place.
It’s a hard, cold, dangerous place.
We’d be there talking to each other and an iceberg would float by.
Youd order a bowl of fried cod tongues.
There are all these strange things.
There are really interesting festivals that they have, they have weird musical instruments that they’ve created themselves.
Its really fascinating to be up there, and you do see these wrecks of towns.
You see this industrial world, how the Industrial Revolution impacted different areas when that huge wave passed through.
It’s a bit of the story of those relationships and those places.
It’s interesting to me, too, becauseether is, in a way, the forgetting drug.
Well, flip my toboggan."
ARQUETTE: All of that is true.Its a very cold place, a lot of intense memories for her.
Its very hard to watch someone you love be caretaken by somebody who hates them.
Theres a lot of disdain in her experience of dying.
I think there’s a part of Cobels mom that is very much present in her.
We get certain qualities from our parents.
For better or for worse, we model them.
She’s one of the early experiments of that.
So, there’s just so much longing that she had for her mom.
That closure she never got to have, that whole relationship she never got to have.
Ive certainly had that experience.
ARQUETTE: Weve been talking about that for a while, playing around with these different kinds of ideas.
As a woman, Know your place.
She also never got that kind of acknowledgment.
ARQUETTE: Here’s the thing: all of the bridges are burned.
Cobel has nothing to lose here.
New episodes ofSeveranceSeason 2 premiere Fridays on Apple TV+.
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