Robert Spearing (Harry Lawty) experiences ringtones in almost every episode. industry. Remember when his lover/abuser/Oedipal mother figure Nicole Craig (Sarah Parrish) died next to him in the Season 3 premiere? Or will he get into a fight with Lumi CEO Sir Henry Mook (Kit Harington) in the next episode?
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And Season 3 Episode 4 industry Episode five, titled “Company Man,” gives Robert a break from his emotional trauma, only to give Rishi Ramdani (Sagar Radia) hell, throwing Robert into political, professional and personal In the meat grinder of anxiety. Pierpoint & Co. sent him as a representative to the special committee investigating the British government’s bailout of Lumi.
Robert is little more than a pawn in Pierpoint’s fight against Henry and his powerful allies, and he’s forced to evaluate his position at the investment bank – especially after learning that his boss Eric Tao (Ken Leung) ) after calling him “expendable.” As if that wasn’t enough, Robert is also contemplating his romantic feelings for co-worker and friend Yasmin Kara-Hanani (Marissa Abela), who is dating Henry . It’s all a very tangled web, the threads of which intertwine in a surreal sequence at the end of the episode when Robert and Henry take ayahuasca together. in the first for industry – a show already filled with scenes of substance abuse – we witness Robert’s journey first-hand, which takes us through nightmarish visions of the Pier Point trading floors and Robert’s own shabby house.
“I remember saying to the writers, ‘This is a big change,'” Lawty told Mashable, discussing his first reaction to reading about Robert’s travels in the “Company Man” script. “It’s definitely a tonal shift for the show, and I think it might surprise people who have been with us from the beginning, but I think it’s a great thing. Very It’s a pleasure to be a part of this project, to evolve creatively and not just stay in the same place.
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Among these themes and ideas, Robert’s many insecurities are given a drug-driven mash-up here. The presence of Pierpoint’s shoe shiner, and Henry’s breathless laughter at Robert’s sacrifice (which may also be a mockery of Robert’s feelings for Yasmin), embody anxieties about his working-class background. Meanwhile, his mommy issues come into view as Nicole stands in his kitchen, lifting her skirt and letting the liquid flow down her legs and onto the floor, an action that mirrors scenes from Henry and Yasmin An early pee leak in Robert’s ceiling caused a pregnant woman’s water to break. The accompanying baby cries lend extra weight to the latter interpretation, especially as the next stage of the journey brings Robert face-to-face with an image of his mother projected in heavenly white on the big screen at Pier Point .
I remember saying to the writers, “This is a big transition.”
Perhaps the greatest concern on display here is Robert’s own relationship with Pierpoint. The journey begins with Robert in Pierpoint’s bathroom, staring at the word “wanker” scrawled on the ceiling. This is exactly where graduate Khalidhar (Nabhaan Rizwan) was before his death industry’This is the first episode. Would Robert have suffered a similar fate if he had stayed with the company? Based on Eric’s neck-slitting move later in the trip (which paired perfectly with his Henry VIII Halloween costume), Robert’s subconscious certainly seems to think so. Since the trip was, as Lawty puts it, “in search of some kind of existential freedom and liberation,” was this Robert’s subconscious telling him to get rid of Pierpoint altogether?
Harry Lawty in Industry.
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Robert is a silent explorer through it all, sometimes expressing fear, sometimes awe. While Lawty is no stranger to playing a character under the influence – think back to all of Robert’s wild parties in season one – this travel scene is unlike anything he or anyone else has ever done. industry.
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“When you play with a substance-induced experience like this, you don’t want it to feel common or cliche,” Lawty said. “At its core, the show’s expression is very abstract, very lyrical, almost dreamlike. If the tone is made for you, you don’t want to overly rely on it like an actor would, you want it to have a feeling.” So this is also a challenge.
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Another challenge? Travel scenes were filmed on the Pier Point trading floor, with every screen lit up with key scenes from Robert’s previous seasons industry. Look closely and you’ll see the moment he discovers Hari’s body, or his RIF Day speech in the Season 1 finale. For Lawty, he didn’t like watching his own performances, so he didn’t watch any industrythe moment of filming was “weird.”
“It’s like walking into a room where it’s just me and a scene I shot five years ago, and it’s like my own version of hell,” Laudy said. “But it’s very appropriate for this moment because I think Robert should be very frightened by this vision.”
He jokingly added: “[Showrunners] Mickey [Down] and Conrad [Kay] Know I don’t look industry — sometimes to their dismay — so I think they were particularly happy to force me to see 200 versions of myself.
Marisa Abella and Harry Lawty in “Industry.”
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On all screens, a tribute to what came before industry In the episode, another image from the trip stands out: Pierpoint’s stock monitor has the words “Eat It” scrolling across it, a reference to Yasmine’s episode in Season 1 when she asked Robert to eat his reflection in the mirror. The moment of semen. The phrase comes across as a poignant reminder of how the relationship between the two, now roommates, began.
“That [initial] The dynamic between them was all about this status-oriented kink that Robert was very willing and okay with,” Laudy said. “But he deliberately put himself at a disadvantage relative to Yasmin, which had a subtle relationship with Yasmin. His attraction to Yasmin was based in large part on his desire to transcend his own class. .Getting out of this situation and realizing how much it hurt his ego was a big part of Robert’s journey, too. [his and Yasmin’s] Concatenated as two characters. In the final episodes of the season, we realize that their care for each other might have more substance once all the baggage is removed.
Robert’s baggage related to Yasmine may not be the only burden relieved by his trip. First, he decided to sell his old, crumbling house. When he returns home at the end of the episode, he seems lighter and more aware of who he is, transcending his insecurities. Despite Henry’s warnings against doing so after the trip, Robert was able to look at himself in the mirror and even smile. Perhaps, for the first time in this episode, he likes the people he sees.
industry Season 3 is now available on Max, with new episodes premiering Sunday at 9pm ET on HBO and Max.
