Industry star Marisa Abela has questioned the BBC ’s decision to edit out a scene in the show’s final season. The hit HBO drama, which follows a group of young graduates navigating the cut-throat finance world in London, has earned critical acclaim since airing its first season in 2020. The series, a co-production between HBO and BBC, has gained a reputation as the “wildest” show on television thanks to its hard-partying characters and frequent sex scenes.
In a new interview with The Times , one of the show’s stars spoke about the season three scene that was considered too explicit for British viewers. Abela, 27, stars as Yasmin Kara-Hanani, the privileged daughter of a publishing billionaire Charles Hanani (played by Adam Levy). In the first episode of the third season, which aired in the US in August, viewers glimpsed an erect penis belonging to Charles caught in a sexual encounter with a pregnant member of staff on his superyacht.
The explicit scene, however, was cut by the BBC when the series finally landed in the UK this week (1 October). When asked about the omission from the British broadcast by The Times , Abela questioned: “What are they going to do, put something else over the top of it?” “Are they going to blur it out?” she continued. “It is quite shocking, to be fair.
But that’s not the point.” She also argued that the inclusion of the penis was not gratuitous as it demonstrates the dysfunctional dynamic between her character and her father.