This article was originally published on June 5, 2024 as part of our 2024 TV issue . We are recirculating it now timed to Industry ’s season-three premiere. Nestled in the rolling hills of South West England, among picturesque towns with country cottages that sell for millions of pounds, there’s a 16th-century private estate known as Longleat House.
The country seat of the Marquess of Bath, it is also, for a few days in late summer 2023, the filming location for a sex-and-drug-addled TV show about misbehaving investment bankers. Bedecked with antique furniture and genealogical tapestries, the home is a significant change of place for a clique of self-destructive 20-something co-workers more often surrounded by the glass-and-fluorescent despair of their highly competitive London offices. Don’t worry: They still find a way to do coke there.
At the end of Industry ’s third season — a level up for the series in terms of scale, writing, and general shenanigans — a few of its characters end up at this monument to old money for a dinner party. There are two familiar faces present in this scene, both wearing black tie: Harry Lawtey, who plays Industry ’s woebegone working-class striver, Robert, whose boys’-club looks — fine cheekbones, a winning curl of hair Industry ’s makeup designer, Mirna Curak, tells me she is personally very protective of — allow him to fit into the banking world, and Marisa Abela, who plays Yasmin Kara-Hanani, a British Israeli Libyan hei.