Ben Stiller Says Working with Adam Scott on “Severance” Has Been 'Much More Fun' Than Their 2013 Film “Walter Mitty” (Exclusive)

Ben Stiller is thrilled to be getting more quality time with Adam Scott.

The Severance director recently told PEOPLE that the two are having even more fun working together on their AppleTV+ series than they did on The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

Stiller, 59, and Scott, 51, co-starred in the 2013 film, which Stiller also directed, about a lonely negative asset manager (Stiller) working for Life as the magazine transitions to an online-only format. Scott, who played the magazine’s antagonistic managing director in charge of the transition in the film, told PEOPLE that never imagined at the time that they would still be working together more than a decade later.

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“It was so fun and I loved working with Ben,” Scott said of Walter Mitty. “So when [Severance] came up years later, I jumped at the chance to work with him again.”

In the hit dystopian series on which Stiller is an executive producer and director, Scott plays Mark S., an employee of the sinister Lumon Industries who has undergone a "severance" procedure whereby he has no memory of his time at the office, effectively creating a split personality.

“I don't think I ever imagined that we'd be doing a television series together,” Stiller agreed. “But I love working with Adam.”

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Stiller explained that he’d been a fan of Scott’s even before they co-starred in the 2013 film. When he read Severance creator Dan Erickson’s pilot script, he said, Scott “was the first and only thought I had for Mark.”

“And it's been so much more fun doing this than Mitty for me,” Stiller added, “because it's gone on longer and we've been able to really get to know each other and work together as producers, and it's really been great.”

It certainly has been a long road for Severance. As Scott told Collider in 2022, Stiller first approached him for the role in January 2017. The series premiered five years later, in February 2022, and took a nearly three-year break between its first and second seasons.

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