Marisa Abela and Harry Lawtey on the Industry’s Cruel Season 3 Finale: “It Was Tragic”
When creator belong to Industry wrote the show’s third season, they didn’t know if HBO would greenlight more episodes – so they made sure to put everything they had into it. To the end Industryin the third season finale, the stakes for the show’s twists and turns — and for the bank itself — are quite existential.
Yasmin (Marisa Abela) falls into the deepest waters at the end of season three, literally and figuratively. While dealing with the scandalous fallout of her father’s drowning, she finds herself trapped in a love triangle between her lovelorn friend, Robert (Harry Lawtey), and Sir Henry Muck (Kit Harington), a man with enough money and power to both protect her from the world and provide her with no small luxuries in life. “Robert really made Yasmin feel very safe in a way that certainly other men in her life didn’t,” Abela said. Still Watching. “He really saw her and loved her, whereas Henry or her father or Eric — I don’t think she felt that they really saw her.”
On the latest episode of Still Watching, both Abela and Lawtey stopped by to talk about their on-screen chemistry and off-screen friendship. (Listen or read below.)
Vanity Fair: Both of your characters have had an emotional season. When reading the third season script, were there any moments or revelations that surprised you?
Harry Lawtey: Well, that’s par for the course with this show. Honestly, every page has a little surprise. But I agree. In this [season] In particular, many of the plots and journeys of these characters are reaching a boiling point. That was certainly the case with Robert. I remember telling Mickey [Down] And Konrad [Kay] a while ago, he was someone who wanted to cry for about 5 years now and felt unable to express his emotions that way. It feels like once the dam breaks, you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube. Now it’s all on display.
Marisa Abela: This is the first year I’ve felt a real need to sit down together about what’s happened, what’s going to happen, where things are headed. And that way of playing is very different, holding the knowledge is hers and no one else’s. Also, the relationship between Robert and Yasmin this season — this is the first time it really matters whether Yasmin knows what she wants and knows what she’s getting into.
Your characters have revolved around each other throughout the series, and Robert has had feelings for Yasmin from the beginning. How do you see their relationship at this point?
Lawtey: The relationship is much more substantial and complete than it was at the beginning. Robert’s attraction to Yasmin has always been socioeconomically informed. He finds the idea of a relationship with her aspirational…. Now they’re at the end of this season where I think there’s very genuine love. That doesn’t mean they necessarily express themselves and share their feelings, but they know what’s going on. In the last two episodes, part of their journey is trying to escape all the nonsense.
