Ben Stiller has the perfect response to reports on the troubled production of the dryer

Although fans of “sedurance” have a lot of praise for the show, they will also be happy to admit that it could test their patience. Not only did season 2 completely teases us with the reintegration scenario, but the wait between seasons 1 and 2 was absurdly long. On April 18, 2022, the final of season 1 left fans on a massive cliffhanger, the one they had to wait until January 17, 2025 to see resolved.

This waiting time between the seasons is only beaten by “Stranger Things”, which can blame its heavy visual effects for delays, and “Euphoria”, where everything that could go wrong has He went wrong with the production of season 3. So what is the excuse of “dryer” producers? Some fans have hypothesized that there had been a drama behind the scenes. Rumors were fed by combat relationships between the Ben Stiller and Dan Erickson showrunners, and a “toxic environment” overall. In a recent interview with Variety, however, Ben Stiller closed these rumors:

“Everyone in the series is heard. There has never been a quirk in our show between anyone. […] I don’t think there has never been a creative process that has no conflict, and it’s really important, because you ask and constantly try to make sure that the choices you make are those that will hold in two years. “”

Stiller also said that he did not believe that many conversations behind the scenes should necessarily be made public: “I do not want to tell people the inner functioning of what is happening because, frankly, it is private.”

To be fair to the show, the production of season 2 of “rescue” suffered a lot from the strike of writers of 2023, which suspended the industry for 148 days. The writers’ strike is a culprit behind most delays for television programs that returned in 2024, and it was particularly devastating since Hollywood was only recently recovered from the massive disruption of industry which was the cocovid pandemic.

“It took a while to write season 2,” said Stiller in an interview in 2024. “Then we started to shoot in October 2022, and we were closed by the strike in May [2023]. At this point, we had finished about 7 of our 10 episodes, then we had to regroup after the strike. It takes us a while to prepare the show. And so, we started to shoot in January [2024]. Then we shot from January to May to finish the last three episodes. “”

Dan Erickson explained that, in addition to the strike, “Severance” is a complicated show to write. The nuanced characters and the fascinating tension that fans like are not something that can be removed quickly. As Erickson said:

“Each character has two lives – mainly, two personalities – and we are widening. For me, writing was the most meticulous part of the process because there were so many ways that we could go. And sometimes we offer something that worked perfectly well on paper, and then it would not be the case before we are there and we do not shoot it.”

You can listen to our own interview with Erickson on this episode of Podcast / Film: