Ben Stiller is thrilled to be getting extra high quality time with Adam Scott.
The Severance director lately advised PEOPLE that the 2 are having much more enjoyable working collectively on their AppleTV+ collection than they did on The Secret Lifetime of Walter Mitty.
Stiller, 59, and Scott, 51, co-starred within the 2013 movie, which Stiller additionally directed, a couple of lonely detrimental asset supervisor (Stiller) working for Life because the journal transitions to an online-only format. Scott, who performed the journal’s antagonistic managing director accountable for the transition within the movie, advised PEOPLE that by no means imagined on the time that they’d nonetheless be working collectively greater than a decade later.
Pink Home/Kobal/Shutterstock
“It was so enjoyable and I beloved working with Ben,” Scott stated of Walter Mitty. “So when [Severance] got here up years later, I jumped on the likelihood to work with him once more.”
Within the hit dystopian collection on which Stiller is an govt producer and director, Scott performs Mark S., an worker of the sinister Lumon Industries who has undergone a “severance” process whereby he has no reminiscence of his time on the workplace, successfully making a cut up persona.
“I do not assume I ever imagined that we might be doing a tv collection collectively,” Stiller agreed. “However I like working with Adam.”
By no means miss a narrative — join PEOPLE’s free each day publication to remain up-to-date on one of the best of what PEOPLE has to supply, from movie star information to forcing human curiosity tales.
Apple TV+
Stiller defined that he’d been a fan of Scott’s even earlier than they co-starred within the 2013 movie. When he learn Severance creator Dan Erickson’s pilot script, he stated, Scott “was the primary and solely thought I had for Mark.”
“And it has been a lot extra enjoyable doing this than Mitty for me,” Stiller added, “as a result of it is gone on longer and we have been capable of actually get to know one another and work collectively as producers, and it is actually been nice.”
It actually has been a protracted street for Severance. As Scott advised Collider in 2022, Stiller first approached him for the position in January 2017. The collection premiered 5 years later, in February 2022, and took an almost three-year break between its first and second seasons.