‘Industry’ Star Marisa Abela “Asked To Tone Down Sex Scenes In S3 Of Hit HBO Banking Drama”

Industry actor Marisa Abela says she’s feels ready to question the implications of her frequent sex scenes in the hit show. 

The British actor plays publishing heiress turned financial analyst Yasmin in the BBC/HBO drama about young traders working in an investment bank, and has been involved in some of the show’s most revealing sex scenes. 

Abela told The Times of London newspaper:

“I understand that it’s part of the show. I think I’m just more careful now about what it is that’s being seen.

The nudity aspect is not something that I minded in season one or two — it was like, ‘If it’s in my contract, I’ll do it.’ It was part of Yasmin and part of the fact that she was so comfortable with herself and she’s very free. And it didn’t have a lot of emotional weight for me.

“It’s not like anyone would have made me do something that I didn’t want to do, but I didn’t necessarily want to question the directors. But I think now I’m more aware of the implications of doing it over and over again. And I’m more aware that I have the ability to say, ‘Do you mind staying on my back rather than coming round the front? You get the idea from my back that I’m not wearing anything.’”

Abela – who also played Amy Winehouse in the biopic film Back to Black about the life of the tragic London artist – shared that she believes Industry, with all its excesses of money, drug-taking and often illicit sex – is an authentic portrayal of the world it conveys. 

“I think that money, power and sex often go hand in hand. And if you’re sitting behind a desk all day dealing in hundreds of millions of pounds for other people, and then making yourself a big bonus and going out a lot, there are only so many dynamics that you can play out in that workplace before it becomes sexual. And I think whenever there’s a big red button, everyone’s instinct is always to push it.”