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Spoilers follow forIndustrys third season through seventh episode Useful Idiot, which premiered September 22 on HBO.
Im going to pitch for a flashback, obviously, playing squash or something.
Its like raising kids.
When its really great, you know its not going to entirely last.
OnIndustry, you definitely know when its like, Oh, those two guys are getting along?
This is looking good!
Its not going to be good.
And it certainly feels like that.
I didnt find out until quite late what was actually happening.
It was while we were filming episodes one and two thatMickey and Konradexplained to me why I was repeating.
I genuinely believe that they really are in that moment as close as two humans could be.
Ive thought of Bill as very practical.
He defends Eric against Harper.
He tells Eric to fire Yasmin.
Thats really the path I was on.
Ive traded and sold stocks.
So they can say they never missed a day of work in their life?
It only informs the betrayal all the more, but because of scheduling, we couldnt make that happen.
We were in that boardroom set for days on end.
We didnt have to even pretend we were tired or sweaty or annoyed.
Thats what happens when you spend 80 hours in a room over five or six consecutive days.
I almost prefer it that way.
It informed the claustrophobia.
It all happened as much as it could in the moment.
Im completely blindsided by Eric.
I knew there was going to have to be a certain heightened emotional connection to those moments.
I didnt honestly know what that would mean, other than it was just going to be awful.
But I think less is more in this case.
But it is brutal to see the new CEO shrug off all his contributions and make Adler a scapegoat.
That might mean sweeping a Me Too thing under the carpet, because to Adler,Nobody got hurt.
The institution doesnt suffer.
There was a Canadian documentary calledThe Corporation.
And I really dont think thats Adler.
I think it is all about the bottom line.
Its Alec Baldwin inGlengarry Glen Ross; its that guy, pure capitalism embodied.
Hes not bad, hes just grown up that way.
What did you think of that Michael Mann reference?Im glad you got that.
Conrad and Mickey threw in Randolph and Mortimer as aTrading Placesreference; theyre obviously big cinephiles.
I was like, This feels like its from … And they were like, Oh, yeah.
And I was like, Oh, yeah!
Its fun when that happens, because people like yourself can enjoy that on two levels.
I love that, and the fact that it has this whole extra layer of resonance.
