The truth behind BBC's Industry: 'I didn't get eye contact for months'

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BBC Industry creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay reveal how accurate banking is depicted in the Marisa Abela and Harry Lawte- starring show.

BBC’s hit show Industry was about the cut-throat world of banking ‘It was normal for me to work 100-hour weeks and pull all-nighters.’ For most people, reading that sentence would send shudders down their spines but for Industry co-creator Mickey Down just shrugged it off as ordinary for a junior banker. ‘The first couple of weeks it was hell,’ the showrunner recalled of his former career to Metro.co.

’ At the heart of Industry is really not the trading, nor the powerplay, but the dysfunctional and often toxic dynamics between its characters. Harper and her former mentor turned nemesis Eric . Yasmin and her seuxal powerplay with Robert . Take your pick. For Konrad, in his three years in the banking industry, he encountered ‘some weird managers for sure.’ He said: ‘There was a bit of a hazing element to everything that I did in my first two years.

 

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