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[Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for Industry Season 4, Episode 4.]
Summary
- In the HBO series 'Industry,' former co-workers Harper and Yasmin are more like sisters — codependent, fiercely loyal, and prone to implode under ambition.
- Yasmin, played by Marisa Abela, weaponizes sex and power to gain control, becoming invaluable to men.
- Harper, played by Myha'la, craves intimacy but treats sex as power.
One of the easiest ways to understand the HBO series Industry is to look at Harper Stern (Myha’la) and Yasmin Kara-Hanani (Marisa Abela), former co-workers at the now-defunct Pierpoint & Co. financial group, at its emotional center. Their friendship runs deep and their ambition can’t help but put them at odds, but no one understands them better than each other. Even still, Season 4 is testing that, as financial journalist James Dycker (Charlie Heaton) digs into the fintech company Tender, where Yasmin and her husband, Sir Henry Muck (Kit Harington), are working with its enigmatic co-founder Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella).
During this interview with Collider, co-stars Myha’la, Abela and Harington discussed the sibling-like relationship between Yasmin and Harper, how long they’ve each come since they first met, that Abela and Harington try to find moments of real love between Henry and Yasmin, shooting that three-way scene in episode three, Harper’s own sexual machinations, and how hard it is for Harper to have Eric (Ken Leung) pull away from her.
Myha’la and Marisa Abela Think Harper and Yasmin’s ‘Industry’ Bond Is Ride or Die
"They have been through so much together that there’s no denying that they’re just beyond the point of no return."
Image via HBOCollider: There’s such an interesting dynamic between Yasmin and Harper. They’ve been rivals who care about each other. They’ve been hostile toward each other. Their co-dependence has been a bit toxic at times. I’m always fascinated by watching them because I feel like if they share the same space for too long, they might either kill each other or just implode. How do you view the relationship between them?
MYHA’LA: I think they’re like sisters. People are like, “Are they friends? Are they enemies?” They’re sisters. When you have a sibling, you understand that there’s nothing that your sibling can say or do to you that’s going to make them not your family anymore. You’re stuck with them. They have been through so much together that there’s no denying that they’re just beyond the point of no return in terms of, is there anything they could do to not be friends or not support each other? No. I think they really crave a safe space because of all the stuff that they’ve gone through together. No one knows Harper better than Yasmin does. No one knows Yasmin better than Harper does. And they really need that.
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MARISA ABELA: I see it the exact same way. They’ve come a long way since the people that they were when they met each other. I think that they keep each other honest. They reflect the most innocent versions of themselves back to each other because they knew each other at that point. I think it’s reassuring to see someone who sees that person in you still. They’re both masters at controlling a narrative about themselves, so to have another person that keeps them honest is actually really necessary.
Kit Harington Found It Very Natural to Movie Into the World of ‘Industry’ After ‘Game of Thrones’
"It's got a lot of similarities to what I spent 10 years doing."
Image via HBOKit, you joined this series in Season 3. How quickly did you find your footing in this world? What’s it like to drop yourself into a show like this, where there is such a specific tone and vibe and delivery to it all? Does that actually make it easier, or are there specific challenges in figuring that out?
KIT HARINGTON: I found it very natural, moving into the show, actually. It’s got a lot of similarities to what I spent 10 years doing on Game of Thrones. It’s a huge ensemble show. I’ve realized recently that the thing I love more than anything in what we do is when we get in a room and chat shit. I think it’s underestimated how important those bits are, actors getting to know each other. When you step on set in Manchester, you know each other as friends, and that makes things sing on camera.
Myha’la, there is a comfort and confidence that Harper has in her own skin and body. Her sex scenes are interesting because sometimes they feel purely transactional and other times it feels like there is story being told. Does Harper have any actual emotional connection with anyone? Do you feel like it’s a fair assessment to say that it’s impossible for her to let people like her?
MYHA’LA: I feel like the only people that she’s ever had a romantic, intimate moment with were her ex, who gives her those forged transcripts, and maybe Robert. He kisses her in Season 1 and that is very honest. It doesn’t feel transactional, at all. She’s also not the one in either of those scenarios, initiating any sort of sexual thing with an end. It feels like those are two people who actually know her and two people who actually care about her. I would say the same about the kiss she shares with Yasmin. The reason it doesn’t feel transactional in those moments, to me, is because it’s with people who know her and care about her. All the other sex that she’s having is absolutely transactional. It is about getting off or a kink in power play with whoever it is that she’s sleeping with. It’s about feeding her own power. That’s why I said kink.
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Kit, there’s a moment in episode two when Yasmin tells Henry to stand up out of the bath, and he ends up telling her that she can be with other men if she wants to. What do you think that exchange between them says about their relationship?
HARINGTON: I think he’s at his lowest level of confidence there. He’s an incredible narcissist. He’s self-involved and an egotist. That doesn’t mean his confidence is particularly high. He’s going through something incredibly deep and traumatic, and she’s wanting to sexualize that moment. She thinks that’s the way to get him reinvigored, and it’s not. She goes from what is quite an intimate moment into something quite sexual. That throws him and his only defense is, “Go fuck someone else. Just leave me alone.” I think there’s quite a male quality to that. There’s a reverting-into-oneself, boyish quality. It’s desperately sad, actually. Me and Marisa [Abela] were keen, in that episode especially, to find the moments of real love and connection between them where we could, so we see that does exist and we care about that breaking down a bit quite quickly. There’s some real pathos to their relationship.
'Industry’s Yasmin Is Always Vying for Power, Even With Her Own Husband
"She knows that she is the person that is able to provide a service."
Marisa, in episode three, Yasmin is essentially in charge of her husband and Hayley being together. What was that dynamic like to figure out? Did you have conversations about how that would play out? What was that like to shoot?
ABELA: First of all, that stuff was in the script, so it was just deciding when those moments might happen and also how Yasmin feels about it. Does she feel the same way from the beginning to end of the scene? When it starts, she doesn’t necessarily really know where it’s going to go and how she’s going to feel about what it is that she’s doing, but she knows that there’s something in this. Yasmin is always searching for a way to be a powerful person in a room, and oftentimes she’s failing. In that moment, she is, without a doubt, successful at being the most powerful person in the room. I think it’s an origin story moment for Yasmin.
The way we see Yasmin go this season, she knows that she is the person that is able to provide a service for men, and she becomes invaluable to those men. For me, it was just about not losing sight of that. With intimacy scenes, there’s always a lot of just making sure that everyone feels safe, and it’s comfortable, and it feels right, and it doesn’t feel awkward, and that you are also able to continue to play your action like you would in any other scene, on top of the moment. I had two of my fellow actors being incredibly vulnerable in front of me, and it was my job to play the scene. The dynamics were just making sure everyone was comfortable enough that when they say action, I am Yasmin watching Henry and Hayley do this, and it’s believable.
Kit, what was that scene like for you?
HARINGTON: It was an interesting moment. I felt quite protective of Henry. He’s trying to change. He’s trying to be good. He’s trying to alter his core, and the person he’s falling in love with, his wife, undermines that quite badly and pushes him into something that he doesn’t want to do. I do think there’s an element of that scene of Henry being abused in some ways. He’s not comfortable doing it. Even though he goes through with it, he’s not comfortable, and it’s a schism in their relationship. It breaks it. And I think that Marisa’s character, Yasmin, has a lot to answer for in that moment. Henry’s historically very badly behaved around women and manipulative around women, but at that moment, he’s trying to change and she undermines it.
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Myha’la, how difficult is it for Harper to feel Eric pulling away?
MYHA’LA: It’s devastating. She's been saying to him the entire season that she was not trying to get personal and that this was just business. It’s working really well, but it’s just business. She needs someone. She needs him on a really personal level. When her mother dies, they go to a place that feels very paternal. She cracks open the door and he kicks it open, and there they are. She trusts him and she says, “Okay, we’ve gotten here now.” As soon as she’s given him what he asks for, it feels like he totally pulls the rug out from underneath her, not just as her business partner, but now it’s as a paternal figure and he can’t give her an answer or a reason. She says, “We’re being honest with each other,” and he can’t do that with her.
Release Date November 9, 2020
Network HBO
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Marisa Abela
Yasmin Kara-Hanani
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Harry Lawtey
Robert Spearing
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Industry airs on HBO and is available to stream on HBO Max. Check out the Season 4 trailer:
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