Wait, Was That Keanu Reeves on 'Severance'?!
In Severance season 2, every winding hallway has a new mystery around the corner. There’s a room full of goats, a scary corridor that Irving (John Turturro) can’t stop painting, and even the dreaded break room. But even when Lumon Industries attempts to distract us with cutesy animated training videos in episode 1, we can’t help but remain on the lookout for hidden messages.
Here's an example. Listen closely to the claymation Lumon building's voice. I mean reeeeeaaally listen. Who do you hear? Because we’re damn certain that the voice of the building is Keanu Reeves. Right?!
The video starts around the twenty-six-minute mark in the episode. Do us a favor. Pause here and listen to the building’s voice again. There are two lines that really stand out. The first is when he yells at an employee and says, “Hey! No running in my halls!” with a John Wick-esque growl. The second line is when the building asks, “But what makes a building truly happy?” I don’t know anyone else who would make the same Keanu-esqe inflections when the building pauses for “truly happy.” The similarities go on and on throughout the video—and I just can’t hear anything else. To us, the voice unmistakably belongs to Reeves.
Now, Keanu Reeves is not a character on Severance. He’s never appeared on the Apple TV+ series—and there’s zero news out there that indicates he ever will. Severance does list Sarah Sherman (Saturday Night Live!) as the voice of the water tower—which was an even easier spot, if you're an SNL fan—but the voice of the building is curiously uncredited at the end of the episode.
I have no proof that Reeves is the voice of the building. Esquire reached out to Apple for confirmation, but we have yet to hear a response. Still, I wouldn’t have even mentioned it if the series didn’t avoid listing the voice actor’s name in the credits. Severance, what are you trying to hide?
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