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Did you spot the cast inside this internet-breaking NYC pop-up?
The cast of Severance, a hit Apple TV+ series, sent the internet into a frenzy on Tuesday afternoon when they appeared inside a glass box in Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall. For over an hour, a huge crowd of onlookers (including the show's executive producer and director Ben Stiller and creator and showrunner Dan Erickson) watched as stars Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, and Tramell Tillman vacuumed the carpet, passed around documents, clacked away at their computers, and acted out other various workday activities at a recreation of the Lumon Industries office from the show.
— Ben Stiller (@BenStiller) January 15, 2025
The pop-up stunt, which continues into Wednesday evening, is to promote Season 2 of the series debuting on Apple TV+ on January 17th. The show is a sci-fi thriller that follows a group of employees who agree to take part in the “severance” program where their work and non-work memories are completely separated leading to a unique kind of identity crisis. Grand Central Terminal works as a fitting location for this pop-up thematically as it is where commuters change between their home and work lives on the way to and from work.
The real-life location of the Lumon Technologies office is the former Bell Labs building in Holmdel, New Jersey, now known as Bell Works. The 2 million-square-foot building was designed by Eero Saarinen and opened in 1962. For decades it was the site of technological breakthroughs in radio astronomy and telecommunications. Today it is a mixed use compound with office, retail, and residential spaces.
After the series stars left the Grand Central cube on Tuesday afternoon, other actors went in and carried out scenes in the office as Lumon employees. The pop-up ends at 8pm ET on Wednesday, January 15th.
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