Christopher Walken sticks to old-school methods for his media consumption.
During a recent appearance on Andy Cohen's SiriusXM show alongside his Severance costars, Walken revealed that he hasn’t watched every episode of the hit Apple TV+ series he stars in—because he relies on DVDs instead of streaming, due to his lack of modern tech.
"Chris, after you appeared in the show, did you watch all the episodes?" Cohen asked.
"Not all of them," Walken replied. "I can't. I don't have the equipment, so they're good enough to send me DVDs."
Cohen followed up, "Oh, they do? Okay. Do you have an Apple TV+ subscription?"
"I don't have anything," Walken admitted.
Walken portrays Burt Goodman, the retired head of optics and design at Lumon Industries, in the Emmy-winning sci-fi thriller about office workers with severed memories. The highly anticipated second season premiered Friday, just days after stars Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, Tramell Tillman, and Patricia Arquette staged a surprise pop-up event at Grand Central Station in New York, drawing huge crowds. Director Ben Stiller also made an appearance.
During the SiriusXM interview, Stiller compared editing Severance to Cohen’s work on The Real Housewives franchise. "You get caught in this cycle where you want to make it great because people have waited, but that takes more time, and then the expectations rise," Stiller said. "When you're making Real Housewives, how long does it take you? Right? You get into those edits."
Stiller praised the franchise as "well-edited" and shared that he enjoys watching it with his daughter. "Salt Lake City is the next one I need to dive into, and my daughter Ella really wants me to start New York, but then I’d have to go back 10 seasons," Stiller joked.
Ahead of the season 2 premiere, the cast spoke with Entertainment Weekly to address fan theories about the show, including speculation that Lumon Industries is involved in human cloning. Adam Scott, who plays Mark, dismissed the idea, saying, "This sounds like what Lumon would be doing in a super boring version of Severance." Patricia Arquette, who plays Harmony, was more direct: "You are very far off and wrong."
