Interview: Mike's Mic chats to Dichen Lachman on 'Severance' Season 2.
Interview: Mike's Mic chats to Dichen Lachman on 'Severance' Season 2.
We re-recruited our outie bestie Mike's Mic to collect all the 'Severance' cast infinity stones and chat to Dichen Lachman on Season 2 finale day.
Lachman who stars as Gemma/Ms. Casey in the show discussed serving 'platinum face card', auditioning for the role, and Australian Lumon snacks.
MIKE'S MIC: We know from the Season 2 premiere that Lumon has international offices - do you think there's an Australian Lumon branch, and if so what are the snacks?
DICHEN LACHMAN: Vegemite, Tim Tams, and Digestive biscuits. I'm just saying my favourite things. <laughs>
MIKE: I put down the soy crackers on the plane, and Shapes after they changed the flavour.
DICHEN: Oh yes, Shapes! So good.
MIKE: Are you familiar with the term 'face card'? And how every week the internet was saying you were serving 'platinum face card'?
DICHEN: No, but I hope that's a good thing.
MIKE: Yes, it is a very good thing. So every week during Season 2, there would be a viral clip of you serving 'platinum face card' on Twitter. I want to show you some examples. I asked the people on Twitter to share the best Ms. Casey/Gemma face cards. Please enjoy each equally.
DICHEN: Oh wow, I will. <laughs> Oh, great, excellent.
MIKE: Boom. Shablam. The people want to know: can you give us some tips on how to best serve 'platinum face card'?
DICHEN: Okay! I guess it's just like, relax the forehead, and do your best Ms. Casey, curious eye look.
MIKE: So it's all about the eyes?
DICHEN: I think so! With Ms. Casey, I worked on like a doe-- those big eyes, where the brows sort of lifted, because she just wants to take everything in.
MIKE: She's lived her, whatever it is, two hours, 100 hours...
DICHEN: 107 hours! She gets a few more minutes in Season 2 but...
MIKE: On the 'Severance' podcast you mentioned this character was an opportunity for you to be creative and to get into your imagination, particularly when you were auditioning. What ideas did you bring to the character of Ms. Casey/Gemma?
DICHEN: In terms of the process of auditioning, I guess what I meant by that was just trying to make a really beautiful product that captured the performance. In terms of the performance, it was kind of bizarre because it was so out of context. I didn't have a script. I just had these very random Outie facts that I had to say, and there were some notes about the delivery. So I just tried to take the notes that were given by casting and deliver them the best way I could in this weird scenario. Usually you get a scene, and it's a relationship scene, or it's an exposition scene, and it's really simple, you kind of know what's going on. I had no idea. And my friend Damien Bodie, who's another Melbourne person, just like yourself, he was on the camera, so he was going handheld, and sort of zooming in a little bit as we went through it, and my husband was reading the lines, and then the three of us would be like, 'What is this? How can we play with it?', and it was just a really fun little expedition for us.
MIKE: If Mark S was working on 25 files related to testing the severance barrier on Gemma, what do you think the other Innies were working on?
DICHEN: I would think they're working on other people, maybe? I have not verified that, so this is all speculation. Maybe they're working on other people. That's what I would imagine because they're all sitting at a computer... and there's a whole world down there.
Severance is now streaming on Apple TV+
Watch the trailer for 'Severance' Season 2 below...
