Perhaps the hottest show on Apple TV is Severance, a workplace drama where you split your personality in two, with your day life not remembering your work life. The second season has been so surreal as we delved deeper into Lumon and the people who worked there. The season just ended, and Ben Stiller sat down with Indiewire to talk about it and how the final frame of the season came to be. Let's go over some of his best quotes. We have to start with Stiller talking about the final shot of the season. He said of the freeze frame, "For me, that image was just in my head from the beginning — when we said, OK, we’re going to go this far and this is where we’re going to take it. You don’t see freeze-frames at the end of movies that often these days, but it used to be done a lot more. It’s just kind of this moment in time where you’re like, “Oh, wow, this is the end of the movie, but it’s going to keep going. We just don’t know where it’s going to go.” You marinate in this moment. It reminded me of movies that I watched growing up. This slow zoom-in on the freeze-frame reminded me of ’70s movies a little bit."Some of these decisions are made because of the way the film is shot. Stiller said, "We actually— we shoot this show digitally, but we transferred that last shot to film and...
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