Gwendolyn Y from Branch 5X (with Alia Shawkat)
The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott
Audacy, Red Hour, Great Scott
4.9 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
For the penultimate episode of the podcast, Ben and Adam are joined by their penultimate podcast guest: Alia Shawkat, who plays Gwendolyn Y from Branch 5X. They talk about Alia's early career as a child actor on Arrested Development, why she doesn't own a TV, and being type cast as an angry teenager. Plus, they discuss what it was like to be the first ones back on set for season 2 of Severance. Then, they answer some fan hotline questions and open up about high school.
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| 0:00.0 | The Severance podcast with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott is presented by The Farmer's Dog. |
| 0:05.6 | Try fresh, healthy food at thefarmer's dog.com slash severance. |
| 0:10.8 | Hey, I'm Ben Stiller. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm Adam Scott. |
| 0:13.8 | And this is the Severance podcast with Ben and Adam, where we talk to the people who make severance. |
| 0:18.7 | And also sometimes we talk to the people who influence severance. sometimes we talk to our incredible fans, and just if it has anything |
| 0:24.0 | to do with severance, we're talking about it. Yeah, we do. We have, and we will, but only for two more |
| 0:30.2 | episodes. Next week, we're bringing in Yule Vasquez, who plays Mark's best friend Petey. But in |
| 0:36.6 | this penultimate episode, we're going to be joined by |
| 0:39.8 | someone that Ben and I both love, who we were lucky enough to work with on Severance. |
| 0:43.7 | Yep. Nice use of the word penultimate. Thank you very much. I like that word. I use that word |
| 0:48.0 | in life. I use it constantly. You just did. But yeah. And our penultimate guest is Alia |
| 0:53.3 | Shawcat, who played Gwwendolen y in first episode season two and uh one of |
| 1:01.3 | mark's new mdr teammates she was so great oh my god so good so good and she's such a great |
| 1:07.6 | actress she really is incredible and has done so many interesting projects. |
| 1:12.5 | So many interesting things. |
| 1:13.7 | She was the iconic Maybe an Arrest Development. |
| 1:16.8 | She was Dory on Search Party, another great show, |
| 1:19.6 | starring another great actor, Christine Taylor. |
| 1:22.7 | And she was Mona and Rami Yousaf's new animated series, |
| 1:26.2 | Number One, Happy Family USA. |
| 1:27.8 | She was incredible on the old man. |
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