Few men in the history of cinema have more famous runs than Tom Cruise, so it makes sense that Adam Scott turned to the movie star when it came time for his major running sequence in the Severance season 2 premiere.

But it was actually shot also over the course of probably, like, five or six months, when we would have different sections of the set that were ready. For a scene that looks so seamless, it’s wild to hear that it took five or six months to shoot.

Severance Season 2 may have taken nearly three years to arrive, but creator Dan Erickson and director/EP Ben Stiller’s pursuit of quality was well worth the wait. The premiere’s opening scene swiftly catapults us back into the high-stakes environment of Lumon’s Severed Floor by showing Mark (Adam Scott) sprinting through the blinding white halls in search of his Outie’s wife,