<p id=”par-1_91″>The season 2 premiere of <em>Severance</em> thrilled fans eager to learn what’s happened to their favorite innies. <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/severance-5-questions-season-2-apple-tv-series-answer.html/”>After a season 1 finale</a> of the <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/apple-tv-plus/?swcfpc=1″>Apple TV+ show</a>, Mark gets his innie besties back on the severed floor as the faces of “Severance Reform.” Mr. Milchick brings them to the Break Room, where they must watch a stop-motion animated film of Lumon’s history. Many viewers were focused on the instructional video’s forced message that all is well at Lumon. However, some caught on that the voice in the video was extra special.</p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-1″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ben-Stiller-Adam-Scott-Severance.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Severance executive producer Ben Stiller and star Adam Scott talk about the show on TV” class=”wp-image-3784710″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Ben Stiller and Adam Scott on January 15, 2025 | Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images</figcaption></figure>
<p id=”par-2_86″>In an uncredited role, Keanu Reeves voiced the <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/severance-fan-theory-suggests-viable-explanation-lumons-purpose-company.html/”>Lumon Administrative Building</a>, Branch #501, in the film shown in the Break Room. Reeves’ longtime fans may have caught it, but Stiller didn’t confirm the audio until he visited <em><a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiE1pDsDo70″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Jimmy Kimmel Live</a></em>. During the late-night show, the <em>Zoolander</em> star explained that production made the innie featured in the Lumon video to look like Stiller. Indeed, the “main character” of the instructional video had Stiller’s build and hair. More importantly, Stiller confirmed Reeves’ voice and offered another fun fact.</p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-2″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ben-Stiller-Jimmy-Kimmel-Live.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Wearing a navy bomber jacket and black pants, Ben Stiller enters the ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ studios on March 3, 2025″ class=”wp-image-3784437″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Ben Stiller at ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ on March 3, 2025 | ZZHollywood To You/Star Max/GC Images</figcaption></figure>
<p id=”par-3_75″>Jimmy Kimmel flat out asked Stiller, “You’ve been asked about this; you’ve not answered the question. Is that Keanu Reeves’ uncredited voice?” The <em>Severance</em> executive producer answered, “Yes, that is <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/keanu-reeves-warned-halle-berry-john-wick-chapter-3.html/”>Keanu Reeve</a>s. Yeah. How cool is that, right?” Stiller said that Reeves agreed to participate in a “full-on recording session” in LA. “He went into the studio and did multiple takes, and he took it very seriously,” Stiller explained, calling Reeves’ voice “warm and inviting.”</p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-3″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Ben-Stiller-Severance-Barack-Obama.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Side by side photos of Ben Stiller and Barack Obama smiling” class=”wp-image-3784711″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Ben Stiller at the 2025 Oscars; Barack Obama at a 2022 movie premiere | Kelsey McNeal/Disney via Getty Images; Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for Netflix</figcaption></figure>
<p id=”par-4_98″>Kimmel pressed Stiller, asking if he’d considered other voices. The <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/vince-vaughn-said-dodgeball-1-best-scripts-ever-read.html/”><em>Dodgeball</em> actor</a> admitted he only asked one other person from his “very short list” of potential voices. “President Barack Obama,” he spilled. “I didn’t ask him in person.” Instead, Stiller utilized a friend who knows Obama’s lawyer, who asked Stiller to write Obama an email. “Like two days later, I get an email back from President Barack Obama saying, ‘Hey Ben. Big fan of the show. Love season 1. Can’t wait for season 2. Don’t think I have time in my schedule to make this happen,’” Stiller described.</p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-4″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Keanu-Reeves-Severance.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Wearing a black suit, Keanu Reeves speaks to fans during 2024 Comic-Con International in San Diego” class=”wp-image-3784712″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Keanu Reeves at 2024 Comic-Con International in San Diego | Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images</figcaption></figure>
<p id=”par-5_53″>Stiller called it “pretty cool” that Obama even responded to his request. “What’s more important than doing the voiceover for the animated building in Severance?” he joked. Enter Reeves. Fans love the psychological thriller for <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/severance-memory-procedure-elevator-barrier-explained.html/”>its Easter eggs</a>, which Stiller claims aren’t all created in advance for viewers to analyze. Some just happen.</p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-5″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Severance-cast-season-2.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”The cast of Severance speaks with Andy Cohen during a recording session at SiriusXM” class=”wp-image-3784708″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Christopher Walken, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, Patricia Arquette, Tramell Tillman, John Turturro, Adam Scott, Dan Erickson, and Ben Stiller at SiriusXM Studios on January 16, 2025 | Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM</figcaption></figure>
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<p id=”par-6_94″>One of many symbols that viewers are trying to decipher involves <em>Severance</em>‘s use of goats. The <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/severance-elevator-song-hints-gemmas-death-possible-plot-points-season-2.html/”>season 2 title sequence</a> features a poster image of Mark sitting at a desk. His head morphs into a painting of a goat. Of course, goats make an appearance in season 2, episode 3, via the goat department. <em>Games of Thrones</em>‘ Gwendoline Christie portays Lorne, a Lumon goat carer. Some think the goats are test subjects or vessels for the microchips of retired Lumon workers. Regardless, we look forward to many more <em>Severance</em> theories as season 2 unfolds.</p>