‘Industry’ Star Marisa Abela Talks “Letting Yasmin Rip Emotionally” & Shutting Out The Noise On Amy Winehouse Biopic: “The Enemy Of Actors Is Self-Consciousness”
deadline.comEvery generation of small-screen hits has its show that catapults a wealth of young actors to stardom. One only need think back to Skins, Channel 4’s cult mid-noughties TV series about a group of teens discovering themselves — its first season alone featuring now-Hollywood A-listers Nicholas Hoult, Daniel Kaluuya, Kaya Scodelario and Dev Patel.
Industry, from up-and-coming showrunners Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, could be deemed this decade’s version.The BBC–HBO hit has propelled actors including Myha’la, who featured in Netflix’s most-watched 2023 movie, Leave the World Behind, and Harry Lawtey, who plays Harvey Dent in Joker: Folie à Deux, into the stratosphere.
Having starred as Amy Winehouse in the StudioCanal biopic Back to Black and soon to be seen with Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender in Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag, Marisa Abela is another Industry breakout.
She plays the flawed, privileged and vulnerable Yasmin Kara-Hanani in Industry, and sits within this stratospheric trio. “The camaraderie we have, especially between the three of us, Marisa, Myha’la and Harry, is incredibly rare,” Abela says in the weeks after Industry’s HBO premiere. “We started in the same place, on the same show, and we now have this shared understanding of the business through a lens that is quite similar.
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