Ben Stiller Wants to Make ‘Severance' More Quickly—but First, He Needs to Get It Just Right

Ben Stiller Wants to Make ‘Severance’ More Quickly—but First, He Needs to Get It Just Right | Vanity Fair

Stiller goes deep on his busy year, from filming the “daunting” new Meet the Parents movie to planning Severance season 3—right after that huge Emmy noms haul.

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Ben Stiller’s having a whirlwind year: after popping up in Netflix’s Happy Gilmore 2, he’s about to start shooting Meet the Parents 4 (aka Focker In-Law) with Robert De Niro and Ariana Grande, and he just locked the final cut of his emotional doc Nothing Is Lost about his late parents. Oh, and don’t forget Severance S3—Stiller’s strapped in as an Emmy-nominated executive producer/director and is itching to get the next season to fans faster, even if he’s cursed by perfectionism.

He admits the three-year gap between Severance 1 and 2 drove everyone nuts, but the 27 Emmy noms proved the wait was worth it. Now he’s wrestling with that age-old Hollywood tug-of-war: “How do you move quickly without sacrificing quality?” Spoiler: even a comedy vet who once shot an episode of Extras before 30 can’t speed past his own process.