“Logo Text When Britt Lower’s Agent Sent Her The Script for the Severance Pilot and Encouraged Her to Audition for the LEAD ROLE OF HELLY R. In the Summer of Land. “IT’s A Real Long Shot, But We Think You’re Right For”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
WHEN BRITT LOWER’S AGENT SENT HER The Script for the Severance Pilot and encouraged her to audition for the Lead Role of Helly R. In the Summer of 2019, She Made It Clear How Slim Her Chances of Landing The Part Were.
“IT’s a real long shot, but weh you’re right for this role and we have you to make a self-TAPE,“ Lower Recalls Her Agent, Jo Yao of Uta, Telling Her at the Time. Lower Had Been in the Business Long Enough To Know That Auditioning Was A Numbers Game. She Accepted the Likelihood of Reject. But this pilot was figrent. “I SPENT A SATURDAY DIVING INTO The Script and Falling in Love With This Character,“ SAID LOWER, WHO RECENTLY GRACED THE COVER OF The Hollywood Reporter. “I WAS LIKE, ‘OK, THIS IS The BEST ONE I’V Ever Read.’” ”
The Tape, Shown Below, Ended Up Getting Her An In-Person Callback with Severance Creaters Ben Stiller and Dan Erickson, Whore She Succeeded in Making Stiller Laugh – A Victory in Itcelf. “That was the win,” she though. Confident She Had Given Her All, She Was Prepared to Say Goodbye to Helly
She FilMed The FIRST SCENE OF THE PILOT – IN WHICH HELLY WAKES UP IN A Featureless Conference Room with No Idea How’s Selected for the Lighting. She asked a friend to read the Lines Spoken over the Intercom by adam of Scott’s Character, Mark S.
“My Approach to Making Self-Tapes Is Like, This Is A CHANCE FOR ME TO SHOW THEM WHAT I would do if they chose me to play this role,“ Says Lower. “And Almost Like You’ve Shown Up to Set Early, and the Director and the DP, and everybody’s Late, and they just want you to make it at your own.
The Bathroom Backdrop Notwithstanding, the Scene Is Strikingly Similar to the Opening Scene of the Series, with Helly R Alyraady Fully Formed. Lower, Who Was An Accomplished Athlete in High School, Gave Such A Physical Performance Within The Confined Space That She Left Black Shoe Marks On Her White Door.
“I don’t Live in that House anymore,” Says Lower, “But I Left [those marks] For a while Because they Reminded me of this Special Time I Got to Be Helly for the Day. ”