They're ready for a waffle party.
“Severance” returns for Season 2 on Apple TV+ on Friday, January 17 — and series stars John Turturro, Brett Lauer, and Zach Cherry know the answers to some of the show's mysteries.
“We definitely know some things,” Sherri, 37, exclusively told The Post. “And sometimes I watch the show and I'm like, 'I didn't even know that's what we were doing!'
The Emmy Award-winning series is a sci-fi thriller about employees of a mysterious biotech company called Lomon.
Mark (Adam Scott), Hailey (Brett Lauer), Dylan (Zach Cherry), and Irving (John Turturro) are all “chipped,” meaning they have chips in their brains that separate their working “selves” (called “innies”) from them. Their regular characters are outside the office (called “externals”). Patricia Arquette plays their evil supervisor, Harmony Coble.
At the end of Season 1, it is revealed that Healy's partner is Helena Egan, who is set to become CEO of Lumon. This makes Hailey her worst enemy, because she hates working there.
Irving also learns that his office sweetheart, Bert (Christopher Walken), is married to another man in the outside world. The show is full of secrets, like Lomon really is.
“Chris would sometimes ask me, ‘What the hell is going on here?’” Turturro, 67, said, referring to Walken.
“And I just say, ‘Listen — we like each other. “Just tell me your lines, and I'll tell you mine.” And sometimes he gets mixed up with the whole thing.
The Big Lebowski actor added, “But I think it's weird that she starts talking about what she's thinking. I'd rather take it from Britt and let her put it on me. And then I have to respond to the same thing with Zach or someone else.”
Laure, 39, agreed that she doesn't feel the need to know everything that's going on.
“Our job as actors is to show up, to be present from the perspective of our characters,” she said. “This requires that you be present in case of confusion as well.”
The stars of the show each have a different style of playing two sides of their personalities: their inner and outer sides.
“We all have different kinds of metaphors for the way we deal with it,” Lauer told the newspaper.
“The metaphor I like to use is that it's all part of Hailey [and] Helena sounds like different music in my head. It's the same musician, but maybe different albums or sides of the album.
“I can relate that to acting sometimes,” Turturro said of playing Irving's sides. “You're in a role, and you're trying to get your personal life out of the way, and focus on that imaginary world and get in touch with the childish part of you that can imagine things, even if you've done that.” All this research or whatever.
Cherry had a more nature-oriented approach.
“I've always said that I like to think of the inside as a squid, and the outside as an octopus,” he explained.
“You know, from a distance, they're similar. As you get closer, you start to see that they're a little different. But when you get closer, they're actually the same.”
When Lauer and Totoro jumped in to point out that squid and octopus were different, Cherry was unfazed.
“But at the cellular level, at the atomic level, we are all made of the same stuff,” he said.
Season 2 of “Severance” premieres on Apple TV+ on Friday, January 17, with new episodes streaming weekly.
