Season 2 of Severance began on Friday, January 17. New episodes will air weekly through March 21. Is anybody watching? We’re going to wait until there are more episodes to binge through before we start it because I am the kind of streaming viewer who hates having to wait a week in between new episodes. We started Season 2 of Shrinking with three eps left and caught up with two more to go. For me, waiting in between eps for those two weeks made me feel like a little kid on a 12-hour drive to Disneyland. Feel free to give me a hard time about this, I don’t care!
Severance star and forever Leslie Knope’s boo, Adam Scott, was on Late Night with Seth Meyers to promote the second season. During his appearance, he told this horror story about an injury he got on set. He doesn’t go into detail about how he got the injury, but it left him with a terrible nosebleed that wouldn’t stop bleeding. Adam was so self-conscious about the nosebleed that he felt like he had to make sure all of his costars knew that it was not a result of cocaine. Naturally, hilarity (and finally medical treatment) ensued.
Adam Scott can assure you he’s not on drugs. While filming season 2 of Apple TV+’s hit show Severance, the actor revealed he suffered a “concussion at one point” and shared how a subsequent nosebleed made him feel pressured to let his costars know he wasn’t doing cocaine.
“A little while later, I got this nosebleed that would not stop,” Scott, 51, recalled on a Jan. 22 episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers. “Like, no matter what we did, we could not get my nose to stop bleeding. It was disgusting and frustrating, but also, when there’s an actor who has a nose that will not stop bleeding, obviously, it’s cocaine, right? We all know this.”
To let his cast members know he was drug-free, he admitted he was “sort of overcompensating and making way too many cocaine jokes, trying to reassure everyone that it wasn’t cocaine.”
Despite his best efforts, Scott added, “But, for sure, by the end of the day, everyone thought it was cocaine.”
The nose bleed never resolved itself and the Parks & Rec alum eventually had to visit an emergency room in upstate New York where he had to get the “inside of my nose cauterized.” Host Seth Meyers then showed the audience a picture director Ben Stiller took of Scott getting the procedure done.
“I asked the doctor, I was like, ‘Is this — Is this going to hurt?’ And he’s like, ‘Well yes, but also the more challenging aspect of this will be the extreme feeling of pepper being shoved up your nose,” he explained. “So it did hurt, but then also it did feel like there was just like a pound of pepper. And he’s like, ‘Don’t sneeze. You can’t sneeze!'”
OMG, poor Adam! That sounds terrible. Nosebleeds are so annoying, and this one sounds like it was a doozy. I’m so glad they were able to finally stop it. On one hand, I can totally see him being paranoid about people thinking his nose bleed was from doing coke because of the stereotype. On the other hand, I can’t imagine anyone who’s worked with him actually thinking that he’d be doing that while working! I have a friend who was an extra on Big Little Lies and did scenes with Adam and Reese Witherspoon. She said they were both really nice, but Adam took the time to talk to all of the extras and make them feel welcome and like equals (in a non-creepy way). That said, I’m so curious as to how he got this mystery concussion! I wonder if he can’t talk about it because of a plot reason or a legal reason.
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I love shows that come out weekly! I get pretty bored of a show while binging it, I prefer watching an episode and having a week to think about it and discuss it with others. It stays in the cultural zeitgeist much longer that way.
My husband and I have started watching many older shows together, watching an episode or two at each sitting. He’ll want to finish a series before we move onto something else but I tend to get tired of it and will burn out after a season or two. I need variety (and a break)!
LOL I’m with Rosie on this – I like to bank the episodes and watch them in close succession. If not, I feel like I forget so many details or plot points, especially around minor characters, from early episodes that end up having an impact or even just being referenced in later episodes.
Maybe it’s perimenopause and my resulting brain mush, but I feel like I miss many clever details if I have to wait too long between the start of a show and its conclusion.
My husband, who also is not on cocaine, gets violent, un-stoppable nose bleeds. When it happens (usually a few times a year), I need to drive him to the ER to get his nose cauterized and packed.
I joke with him that he isn’t allowed to die under mysterious circumstances because I’ll definitely be unjustly sent to prison for murder due to the trace blood evidence that I imagine is all over our house and cars.
Oh no! That sounds miserable for you both.
I was a little confused (and weirdly curious) about one aspect AS describes; maybe you can clarify for me? He mentions the feeling of pepper being shoved up his nose, and you said your husband gets cauterized “and packed” – are they really literally packing the nose with pepper? Not, like gauze or something? If so, why?!? Or is it just that after being cauterized, whatever they pack the nose with will just feel *like* pepper/something sneezy, but isn’t literally that?
My husband hasn’t mentioned anything about it feeling like pepper. The way he describes it is like having an industrial sized tampon shoved up his nose until it touches his brain. It is deeply uncomfortable and he hates it (it puts a lot of pressure behind his eyes since it’s basically filling his entire sinus cavity) but he usually needs to keep it packed for a week. There’s a little tube inserted as well — I assume to help with breathing?
I dunno though. I’m just the lady who cleans up all the blood afterwards haha.
I’m watching Severance weekly as the episodes come out. Adam Scott and Ben Stiller are also doing a podcast that has already covered all of last season’s episodes and is doing a new episode every week to cover season 2. If you like the show, definitely check out the podcast–they have different actors, writers, directors from the show on as guests giving more inside tidbits.
The morning after cataract surgery on my left eye I had a nose bleed, which I reported in the follow up doctor’s appointment. They said it was very unusual and not likely related. But I’m not a regular nose-bleeder, so who knows for sure? I did have to report that my eye went below my heart (not supposed to do that re pressure) whilst cleaning up the blood. Luckily I was already in the bathroom when it started, but yeah, even though I cleaned it at the time, and have since, I bet there’s still trace blood all over the bathroom floor and a bit on the wall where my nose spewed. Nose bleeds are awful, partly because they are so unexpected and sometimes, really hard to get under control. Mine stopped eventually with ice, pinching and my head flung back for about 20 minutes. I can’t imagine it not stopping at all. Cauterizing sounds traumatizing.
Awh, poor Adam. I’ve also suffered from unstoppable nosebleeds from a very young age. All of a sudden in my early teens, they stopped. But then started again randomly in my late 30s. And I had to get the cauterisation, which was quite unpleasant. Not so much the actual cauterisation itself, but the tubing hitting my gag reflex and having to stop myself from sneezing was awful!
Some people have an anatomy inside their nostril(s) that a vein runs very close to the surface. A slight bump on the nose that would not bother most of us will cause bleeding. The congestion and nose blowing of a cold will cause bleeding. Sometimes their nose will just bleed spontaneously for no apparent cause. I had a child who was like this. We had many ER encounters throughout her childhood. They went away when she reached her late teens.
My husband used to have a deviated septum and would get random nosebleeds anywhere and at any time.