Severance, a guilty pleasure enjoyed by yours truly, is enlivened by Christopher Walken's and John Turturro's possible romance under the questionable auspices of Lumon Industries because To work at Lumon, employees must volunteer for “severance,” a surgical procedure that bifurcates the mind so that the work self — the “innie”— has no knowledge of the home self — the “outie” — and vice versa.
With this in mind, the wry humor of these two resonates without question. :)
“I’ve hardly ever played the guy who gets the girl. Or the guy,” Christopher Walken said. “Romantic, that’s not it. Usually I chop people up or something.”
In the sixth episode, the two men meet in what looks like a greenhouse. They speak softly, their faces and bodies coming closer. They very nearly kiss, until Irving reminds him about the company’s stance on workplace relationships. “This can’t be romantic then?” Burt asks. “Not romantic at all?” A lifetime of yearning — two lifetimes — is concentrated into these few seconds.
Did the actors ever try the scene with a kiss? They did not. “Because I’m so old, it would have been a little bit hard to watch,” Walken said.
“People think that actors talk about motivation and acting,” Walken said. “Mostly they talk about cooking, movies and sometimes girls.”
Turturro had wanted to turn these conversations into a book, “Talkin’ and Walken.” But Walken killed the idea. He didn’t want to hurt the feelings of anyone still living.
They don’t know what the planned second season of “Severance”will mean for these characters or if Burt, who retired from Lumon, will even appear at all. They hope that the relationship will continue, though Walken quashed the idea of any sex scene.
“I always think, would I want to watch this?” he said. “No, so no full frontal.”
They riffed for a while on the idea of Burt and Irving taking a road trip.
One can only hope. :)
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