Get ready to frolic, “Severance” is revealing most about the goats.
Spoilers ahead for the third episode of “Severance” Season 2, “Who is Alive?”
“Severance” star Adam Scott told the Post that the third episode was tough to film, because the actors were really working with live goats.
“Britt [Lower] and I had a scene where we’re talking,” he said. “It’s like a serious scene between two people and no jokes…but every 10 or 15 seconds you had to shoo away a girl because they’re trying to eat your shoelaces or your pants.”
Scott added, “Gwendoline Christie was in that scene, too. That’s a scene where you had a difficulty keeping a straight face, because the baby goats wouldn’t stop trying to eat our clothing.”
Now in its second season, AppleTV’s mystery box sci-fi drama “Severance” (new episodes out on Fridays) follows four of the “severed” employees” at the mysterious company Lumon: Mark (Scott), Helly (Britt Lower), Irving (John Turturro) and Dylan (Zach Cherry), who all underwent a procedure to separate their memories of what they do at work as “innies” from their “outie” personas in the outside world.
They work in a bureaucratic nightmare office space – so one of the enduring mysteries of the show is why Mark and Helly stumbled on a man feeding baby goats in an office conference room in Season 1.
Scott also told the Post that he knows the answer to that plot question. “What’s up with the goats? And what is Lumon doing? Yeah, I think I know essentially the answers to those questions.”
The goat issue stuck out like a sore thumb in Season 1, since nobody expects to see farm animals in a sterile office environment. Viewers came up with theories about what it meant (“I’ve heard some of them,” Scott said, referring to fan theories on Reddit. “But I don’t jump in and really explore them myself”).
The goat mystery came back into the forefront this episode, when Mark and Helly finally find the goat department.
Within the office building, it’s a giant indoor space about the size of a football field, with grass, rolling hills, goats, and bizarre employees like “Game of Thrones” star Gwendoline Christie, who is hostile towards them, at first. One of her male colleagues is even dressed like a giant goat.
“Certainly walking into that room, it was amazing what they had put together there,” Scott recalled about filming the scene.
“We were shooting it and couldn’t believe we were in a room with goats and goat herders. Sarah Edwards, our costume designer, is incredible and really hit the bullseye with all of the people in ‘Mammalias Nurturable’ which is the department we visit.”
