Kit Harington will be joining the third season of Industry, HBO and BBC’s high-octane investment bank drama that’s been described as “as stressful as drinking 10 espressos then speaking in public, naked”, “bonk-busting banking drama”, “amoral” and “the most thrilling show on TV”.
Harington will be playing Henry Muck, the CEO of a green tech energy company, Lumi, that’s just about to go public.
The next season of the show, which details the lives of a bunch of young bankers in “the pressure cooker environment and sex and drug-fueled blitz of international bank Pierpoint & Co’s London office”, will focus on ethical investing, so business possibility Lumi will become important in the plot.
Industry currently stars Ken Leung (Lost) and a cast of relatively new faces including Marisa Abela (COBRA), Myha’la Herrold (Bodies Bodies Bodies), Harry Lawtey (The Pale Blue Eyes).
The show which was first released in 2020, was a hit with both critics and audiences. Once its first series dropped, The Standard said the sex-charged show was “blazing a trail for women”, and its second series didn’t let up: “The dog-eat-dog world of banking is back on our screens and it’s just as thrilling as last time,” said The Standard. On Rotten Tomatoes the second series garnered a whopping 96 per cent.
The show, which was renewed for a third season in October 2022, is created by Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, who previously worked together on David Hasselhoff comedy show Hoff the Record, and feature film Gregor (2014).
“The best thing about it is that it presents a world that is sometimes nasty and really kind of ugly,” said Down to The Guardian in August. “When it was first commissioned, HBO said that we had an opportunity, as new writers, to do something that was pretty against the grain – and they told us to lean into that.”
“I think we’re only just beginning to hit our stride,” said Kay in the same interview. “It’s a bit like we needed to watch the first season to understand what the show’s really about.”
36-year-old Harington, who is best known for playing the King of the North Jon Snow in Game of Thrones, has had roles in 2021 Marvel film Eternals, where he played Dane Whitman / Black Knight, in 2022 American Horror film Baby Ruby, and in the Apple TV+ disaster drama Extrapolations, which dropped in March.
The actor took some time out after Game of Thrones concluded in 2019. Speaking about his break on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show in August 2021, Harington said: “I went through, kind of, some mental health difficulties after Thrones and during the end of Thrones, to be honest. And I think it was directly to do with the nature of the show and what I’ve been doing for years.”
“I think I took, sort of, a break after Thrones where, so, I don’t want to work for a year [and] I want to really kind of concentrate on myself. I think I’m really happy I did that.”
