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Spoilers follow forSeveranceseason two episode four, Woes Hollow.
The wind howls around his fur-clad head and body.
(It takes 18 days on average to shoot an installment of the series, says Stiller.)
The end result is an episode that looks chilly and is frequently chilling.
Adds Stiller, sometimes you want to pay attention to the logic.
A scene later in the episode in which Irving runs into his doppelganger in the woods ultimately got cut.
This was more about him confronting his own shadow.
It was really good, but it was off-topic for what the episode was about.
Erickson and his writers initially werent sure what kind of corpse the group would stumble upon in the woods.
As an Innie, do you know a seal doesnt live in the snow?
The animal itself was created by Penko Platikonav, a sculptor who works on the series.
Wed say, Oh, maybe theres bones here.
Its almost like we reverse engineered to decay it.
John Turturro was telling stories about when he was a young actor.
It was pretty fancy, but we didnt end up shooting it, he says.
The simplest, most literal answer: Erickson likes the instrument.
Ultimately their goal is for the Innies to seek out the comfort of Lumon again.
The shooting book is about two and a half feet big.
Her presence provides the episodes jump scare, adding to the menace of Irvings dream.
It matched the spooky, abandoned look Hindle was hoping to achieve.
Once again, the crew had to take snowmobiles and trucks with tracks to get to the location.
Thats how the desk got in.
Thats how all the gear got in.
All that fog, thats all real, says Stiller.
It really worked out for us in terms of the eeriness of it.
His team also built the desk and keyboard oversize so that the woman playing Woe would seem much tinier.
Severancefans will undoubtedly wonder about the imagery that appears on Irvings computer screen.
All of that was created by the VFX team in post-production.
He knows plenty of viewers will be doing just that.
Irving knows this could lead to his termination from the severed floor and his own death.
I think he accepts it as the end in that moment.
