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Indy Lewis, 21, has been cast as the brash new grad in series two of Industry. Indy, from London, is new on the acting scene but has starred alongside Stanley Tucci in other projects.
“Are we c s?” young investment banker Robert asks his colleague Yasmin.
I immediately want to yell ‘Yes!’ at my TV, because the characters in new HBO drama
Industry are not exactly endearing.
But working in London investment bank Pierpoint & Co. they are clearly in the lion’s den.
The series created by Mickey Down & Konrad Kay (both
Hoff the Record) is as cold as they come. Deals are done, empires rise and fall and any respect in the workplace is discarded in the pursuit of profits -but that’s the point.
In the middle of it all is Harper Stern (Myha’la Herrold) one of the ambitious young graduates ready to take on the world at Pierpoint. Nobody knows she has lied her way into a London trading desk from New York, but she is both skilled and savage working alongside her mentor boss Eric (Ken Leung).