Severance creator Dan Erickson has just lately opened up about his inspiration behind the hit Apple TV + present.
Throughout an look on a stay episode of the Soundtracking with Edith Bowman podcast, Dan stated, “I had this expertise that I feel is fairly distinctive to me, which is that I used to be working a job I hated.”
“I discovered myself strolling in. I’ve stated this various occasions, nevertheless it was a door manufacturing unit. And I used to be working in somewhat workplace cataloguing hinges and deadbolts and different door items,” continued the 41-year-old.
The creator additional stated, “I simply discovered myself strolling in sooner or later and thought, I do not need to do that anymore.”
“And if I’ve to go in at this time, I would favor to only skip forward to the eight hours and disassociate. After which the entire thing simply sort of got here from that,” defined Dan.
Dan shared that he expanded his thought with the help of Ben Stiller, who additionally labored on the present as an govt producer and directed a number of episodes.
“As I assumed concerning the thought, and particularly as soon as Ben got here on, we wished to ensure that it was about extra than simply this type of concept that we’re totally different folks at work and versus at dwelling or that we do not like work,” he identified.
Dan talked about that what they realised “is that the present may be very a lot concerning the form of id and who we’re at our core, and if we might be the identical folks with out our recollections if we had existed in a grown-up or lived in a very totally different state of affairs”.
“In a company setting, we will have our humanity form of diminished and in some instances sort of willingly diminish our personal humanity, in order that we will match into that setting and what the risks are of that,” added the creator.
