"She's Really Battling Two Conflicting Desires": 'Severance's Britt Lower Admits the Line Between Helly and Helena Is Blurring

Editor's note: The below interview contains spoilers for Severance Season 2 Episode 6.While Apple TV+'s Severance has been home to a lot of twisty mysteries, one aspect the show is already providing more answers about is the outies. We've spent a lot of time on Lumon's strange severed floor already, but Season 2 has pushed past that boundary to reveal much more of what's going on in the lives of the company's severed employees — beyond Mark Scout (Adam Scott), at least. This week's episode, "Attila," clues us in on a bit more in terms of what the remaining members of MDR — and yes, we're still counting Irving (John Turturro) — are doing when they're not refining (or making use of their Lumon-approved hall passes to skip out on said refining). Dylan (Zach Cherry) may have ended up in a love triangle with his wife, Gretchen (Merritt Wever), and his own innie, while Irving navigates a somewhat awkward dinner with his innie's lover, Burt (Christopher Walken), and Burt's husband, Fields (John Noble). As for Mark, both innie and outie make interesting relationship strides this week, as Mark S. finally sleeps with Helly (Britt Lower) — the real Helly — for the first time, while Mark Scout finds himself thrown by a surprise encounter with Lumon heir Helena Eagan (Lower). But what's in store for Mark when his newly reintegrated memories bring him a new awareness of who this woman really is, and what she means to his innie?