HBO’s smash hit “Industry” returns for its third season on Sunday, replete with coke-fueled ragers, an afflicted embezzler heiress, “corporate girlie” influencers and “woke” investing.
“Do you want to operate within a system and be successful?” Pierpoint wealth manager Celeste Pacquet succinctly asked Yasmin last season. “Or do you want to dream you can change it, and be left behind?” “When you’re researching a character and trying to put together a character, it’s not that difficult when there’s an influx of information, whether it’s films, reading up on finance books and things like that,” Radia said. “On top of the fact that, in London, especially in the finance sector, there’s a big South Asian diaspora that is present. I’ve got friends who work in that industry. I’ve got family who work in that industry. It was a bit easier than I thought it was going to be.
“When we find her in Season 3, of course, this could feel like the lowest of the low for her,” Myha’la said of her character. “She’s keeping a diary and forwarding calls. That is not what she’s meant to be doing, and she doesn’t want to do that, but that’s her ticket to stay in London. That’s always been the thing — I want to stay here in this world. This is where my life is, and I’m staying — so happy for her, for that.