THE BIG STICK
Tramell Tillman is Seth Milchick, Lumon’s severed floor supervisor, who looms large over the “Innies”
What was it like for you shooting season one of
Severance,
trying to figure out this character? How much had the producers shared with you about him?
In season one we were in a very nice position in that we had all of the episodes available to us, so we knew where the story was going. The tricky part about it was that we weren’t sure of the tone. So that started many conversations that carried on from when we first started filming.
What was wonderful is that Ben and Dan both made themselves available for us to speak with, and Mark Friedman, the showrunner at the time. They were always at the ready to talk about this character. It was a lot of artistic freedom that I was given in order to create Milchick. I also believe that awareness of social politics came into play.