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Your characters are now in higher positions at Pierpoint, with people working under you, and it’s a different dynamic than when you were all lambs to the slaughter in the first season as graduates. How has this progression been reflected in your own career trajectories? Because you both came on the show fresh out of acting school, and now you’re in season two, with other acting roles ahead of you. Do you personally feel like you’re coming in with a whole new kind of swagger and confidence after almost proving yourself through the massive success of Industry?
Myha’la: Definitely. The first time was our first big break and there were a lot of expectations. There was a fear of not knowing how we would handle him. But now, after going away and spending a year in isolation, and having a few other projects behind us, we’re back and not only are we very familiar as we’ve done it before, but there’s a newfound confidence and skill set that’s totally outside of what we do as actors. These skills are more related to the business side of the whole thing. Because it’s not just about showing up on set and delivering on your words. There are so many other things that are required of us, especially as young people and as women, to advocate for what you need on set and off set, to make sure that you are cared for and taken care of you. For me, I was very far from home. So that was a whole element. But the more you do, the better equipped you are to handle situations. It was nice to come back and just be like, okay, I can settle down. I know what I’m doing now. I can just play, have a good time and do the show.
Just to expand on that a little bit, I know Marissa, you’ve talked about intimate scenes before in interviews. Were you able to give more feedback, push back more, now that you were shooting those scenes? Because I know your character in particular, there were some heavy sex scenes in the first season.
Marissa: yeah It’s hard because I don’t feel like I can back out now because I didn’t like it or something like that… I think people assume that as soon as you get some power or leverage in a situation—which we do a little bit more now—that your instinct is to say, ok, great, no more sex, no more nudity. In fact, one of the things I love most about Yasmin, that I think people really responded to about her, was that she’s physically and sexually empowered as a young woman. She is proud of her body and proud of her sexuality and the way she manages to express it. I don’t want to lose that in her. But there are things I now question about how this is expressed. I don’t think I would have been afraid to say something before or feel like I wasn’t allowed. I just felt that I was so lucky to be there and that if it had been recorded I would have done it. Whereas now I might be like, “Oh, if that’s what we’re trying to say with this scene, instead of doing X, can we do Y?” I actually have a lot less nudity this season, but it’s not like a choice . It’s just that Yasmin is busy with other things. She has more problems with her family or her father or her work. Yasmin’s story last season was much more about her sexuality. She was trying to figure out what she wanted from Robert. And I think she kind of got that now. So it’s just less plot for her. But I think I learned a lot from Myha’la. I remember once hearing her say, “If I have a sex scene or an intimacy scene, I’d really like to like it and not break for lunch in the middle.” If we’re going to do it, let’s do it. And then we can have a late lunch or we can start early in the morning and be done by noon or after noon, whatever. But I don’t want to eat lunch in the middle of an intimate scene. And I was like, he’s stealing this.
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