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Severance star Patricia Arquette, who plays Lumon employee Harmony Cobel, explains why her character says Mark’s (Adam Scott) name with a noticeable inflection.
Arquette was interviewed by Variety following Severance season 2, episode 8, and she discussed why her characte speaks the way she does, and in particular, why she says Mark’s name in a certain way.
“I came up with that when they were telling me how Harmony grew up in this place, and even just the lore of tempers and all the different things — there was an old world-ishness about it. So I knew I wanted to have this sound, since I knew that Harmony hadn’t really been raised so much by her mom as these figures of higher authority.
“And, I thought, authority has this certain tone. If you think about a drill sergeant, there’s a certain kind of meter and a certain kind of tone and a certain kind of authority. And then you think of all these different people in upper management, the way that upper management sounds. I think she had formed a sound based on hemeansr idea of what that is.
“And I don’t know, I was kind of playing around with watching a little bit of “Maude” before we started, and there was a certain way that Bea Arthur speaks, that there’s a tiny, tiny pinch of the tip of the hat to “Maude” also. And there’s some joy that I think Cobel has to luxuriate on his name. It means a lot to her.”
Source: Variety