The “Severance” creator shares how “horrible” watermelon head came to life

Not everything is as it seems in the world of Deterioration – Even the fruit.

During February 14, the section of the hit series, entitled “Trojan’s Horse”, gets macrodata Refinement (MDR) team in the mysterious Lumon Company to mourn his cut friend Irving (John Turturro) after he has been fired to almost kill Helena Eagan ( Britt Lower) while she reveals her for having external motives.

Dylan (Zach Cherry) forces his boss, Mr. Milchick (Tramell Tillman), to allow the team to a tournament ceremony for Irving. Milchick accepts boring and presents the team at the beginning of the procedure a watermelon bust to resemble the exact similarity in Irving’s face. By ignoring their confusion, Milchick urges the remaining dismissed crew, which includes land (Adam Scott), to eat the cut head of his friend.

According to show creator Dan Erickson, the desire came to create the fruit bust from his search for inspiration online.

“I just liked that idea, Erickson told Entertainment every week. “I googled and looked at Google images of different melons, and I browsed down and suddenly I saw this scary face, and I was pushing. And I thought, ‘Okay, yes, we definitely have to do this. This is definite something lumon would do. ‘”

He went on to call the idea that Irving’s friends eat his cut head “terribly and ritualistic”, but agreed that it “feels right for Lumon.”

“There is something so ignorant meat -like about it,” Erickson explained further in an interview with Polygon. “It’s red and it has the type of meat consistency. It’s almost like this bloody face looking at you … but it is presented with this veneer of the companies’ pleasantness. “

Although Erickson was sure that the carved fruit was perfect for the stage, it was much harder to have real fruit on the set for hours than the creator imagined. “I think they had a few different ones, to leave it it would start to turn brown or shrink a little if you are going to do it during the day,” he noted Entertainment every week.

Propmaster Catherine Miller also shared the publication how difficult it was for the sculptor Penko Platikanov to create the hyperrealistic head. “We quickly learned that the high water content of the fruit made it extremely challenging to carve,” Miller said. “They continued to become cloudy … and our schedule was such that we would film that scene for many months.”

After some tests and errors, Miller explained that the last section did not include a real watermelon, as tight foam coated in color and varnish for the “wet feeling” was used instead.

“We created a second melon head out of foam with a” disc “that is already carved out of it,” she said. “We matched a real piece of melon in it so it could be pulled out on the camera and eaten at the same tag.”

The false watermelon head was so convincing that it tricked Erickson the first time he saw it. “I literally worry sometimes I will lose the grip with reality,” he admitted. “It’s something so strange about imagining something and then you give it to someone else and they make it real.”