What Happens to Gemma on ‘Severance’? Dichen Lachman Wont ‘Like’ Fan Theories

• Dichen Lachman has theories about Gemma on “Severance” identical to followers do.
• However Lachman informed BI she’s cautious about reacting to any of the theories she sees on-line.
• As for what’s forward for Gemma in season three, Lachman says “the chances are actually infinite.”

Sure, Dichen Lachman sees your “Severance” theories. And no, she will not be responding to any of them.

“Up till now, I have been scared to ‘like’ it in case they could assume that that is a affirmation that they are right or one thing,” Lachman informed Enterprise Insider.

Protecting tight-lipped is hard work, particularly when your character performs one of the pivotal roles in Apple TV+’s hit office thriller. As Mark’s (Adam Scott) spouse Gemma, who’s being held in captivity and experimented on at Lumon Industries, Lachman holds the important thing to the present’s core mysteries.

Season two, episode seven of “Severance” lastly confirmed us what was taking place to Gemma on Lumon’s mysterious testing flooring whereas her husband’s innie was toiling away at his “mysterious and essential” macrodata refinement work on the severed flooring: Mark was refining 25 totally different severed consciousnesses for his spouse. After he is executed, there can be no want for her to exist anymore.

The season two finale revolves across the rescue mission to free Gemma from Lumon, which appears profitable ultimately, with one main twist: After depositing Gemma outdoors Lumon’s doorways, Innie Mark opts to say inside along with his love curiosity, Helly, somewhat than turn out to be his outie and be part of his spouse.

The ending was a shock to Lachman, who stated she did not even know that Gemma would finally escape Lumon firstly of filming “Severance” season two. Whereas the solid had scripts for all of the episodes in season one prematurely partially because of COVID shutdowns and different points that stalled filming, a lot of season two “unfolded a bit extra as we filmed,” Lachman stated.

However Lachman stated understanding solely what her character would know at any given second was factor for her efficiency.

“Severance” creator Dan Erickson, the keeper of all Lumon’s secrets and techniques, is “actually good at simply telling me what I have to know so as to have the ability to obtain what I would like for the scene and the efficiency,” she stated.

“He is beneficiant in telling you stuff that may not be on display screen that is sooner or later,” Lachman stated of Erickson. “However then he additionally would not inform you issues you do not really want to know, as a result of they have not occurred but, so it is probably not serving the aim of the scene.”

For instance, Lachman would not know precisely what would have occurred to Gemma if Mark did not rescue her after finishing the Chilly Harbor file — as a result of Gemma herself did not. Ditto what Emile the goat needed to do with any of it.

She does, nevertheless, recommend that Gemma may not essentially have been killed in a bodily sense.

“In our present, dying can imply various things. For instance, when Ms. Casey walks out the door, she successfully dies. And Dr. Mauer calls out to Mark, ‘You will kill all of them!’ as he is attempting to flee with Gemma,” Lachman stated. “Whether or not or not they had been going to truly kill her bodily physique or not, I do not know if that was so essential for me to know, as a result of the character would not know.”

As for the place Gemma goes from right here in “Severance” season three — now that she’s presumably free of Lumon however with out her husband, Lachman is as in the dead of night as everybody else.

“The chances are actually infinite,” she stated. “I am positive it is one thing I have never even presumably thought-about.”

One factor she has thought-about is whether or not we’ll see Ms. Casey, the Gemma innie we met first in season one, once more. Lachman hopes so. “I really like Ms. Casey,” she stated. “She was a really candy character and I really feel a lot disappointment for her.”

She’s additionally blissful that Ms. Casey made a quick look within the finale when Gemma shifted again into her as she was kissing Mark within the elevator.

“I am glad she acquired a little bit second there to really feel like she belonged, regardless that it is a peculiar state of affairs for her,” Lachman stated. “She acquired a little bit pleasure and a way of belonging in these previous few moments.”

The primary two seasons of “Severance” at the moment are streaming on Apple TV+.