“That particular sequence brought people so much joy. ![]() “Usually the set is really quiet, but every now and then, I hear laughter a little bit - stifled laughter,” Tillman remembers of the two days it took to shoot the MDE. In “Defiant Jazz,” the actor channels that unsettling blend of charm and threat into shimmying, gliding, and doing the bird during a Music Dance Experience (MDE) meant to endear him to the MDR division that “totally backfires,” Tillman says. Tillman “definitely grabbed onto this idea that there’s something really scary behind the smile, and if you’re not careful, it’ll come out,” Erickson says. In one scene, Milchick is smilingly offering the team a “waffle party” if they meet their goals in another, he’s torturing his employees in Lumon’s ironically named break room, forcing them to repeat a “compunction statement” - an apology to the company for not behaving exactly in line with its mission - more than 1,000 times. Milchick is a chameleon and loyal through and through to Lumon, a “really enthusiastic company man,” as Severance creator Dan Erickson imagined him. ![]() Milchick, a foreboding figure who oversees the Macrodata Refinement (MDR) team and its four severed members: Mark ( Adam Scott), Helly (Britt Lower), Irving (John Turturro), and Dylan (Zach Cherry). Tramell Tillman is quoting the crew members of Severance, Apple TV+’s critically acclaimed sci-fi thriller series, during the filming of its seventh episode, “Defiant Jazz.” Heading into the final stretch of its first season, Severance has already secured cult status with the story of mysterious company Lumon Industries, the strange dogma of its leader Kier Eagan, and the brain-surgery procedure that divides certain employees into their “Innie” and “Outie” selves, bifurcating the memories of their personal and professional lives.
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