“We’re Our Own Worst Enemy”: ‘Severance’ Season 2 Star Reveals the Challenges in Juggling Multiple Personas

The wait is finally over and the first episode of Severance Season 2 is now streaming. The show brings us back to Lumon Industries, where its workers undergo a procedure known as severance to completely split their work identity and personal identity into two different people who are aware of the other’s existence but know nothing about them. This leads to many of the characters in Severance playing two versions of themselves, what’s referred to in the series as an “innie” and an “outie.” Collider’s Carly Lane recently chatted with Britt Lower, who plays Helly Riggs/Helena Eagan in the show, and she spoke about the challenges and the rewards of playing multiple versions of the same character, which she is doing even more this season than in Season 1: