More New Faces Added for 'Industry' Season 4

The slow-boil hit Industry is one of the more interesting success stories of the 2020s. Initially launched on HBO and BBC 2 during the height of the Autumn 2020 lockdowns, the series was an instant hit across the pond where "Lockdown 2" was in full effect, and a TV series about good-looking young people in a "work hard party harder" career track was precisely the right sort of escapism. However, here in the States, HBO and the newly launched HBO Max were discovering that "if you build it, they will automatically watch" was not a viable marketing strategy, and the series' first season utterly failed to make an impact. However, four seasons in, the show is finally catching on... just as the entire cast turns over.

Just because Americans overlooked the show right away doesn't mean the cast needs to stick around now that the U.S. viewership is finally climbing. The series' original four core cast members from the first two seasons (Marisa Abela, Myha'la Herrold, David Jonsson, and Harry Lawtey) weren't just in a U.K. hit; the COVID-driven entertainment news of the time turned them into household names, to the point that Myha'la was able to go full on mononym before Season 3's debut.

Jonsson had already moved on when U.S. audiences started watching in Season 3, leaving behind the series for more significant projects like Murder Is Easy. Now Lawtey is also exiting for larger, more high-profile projects, like Mr. Burton, where he plays the famous actor Richard Burton as a teenager. In an interview discussing the forthcoming Season 4, the series showrunners, Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, admitted that Lawtey's cited "scheduling conflicts" were really a mutual decision by all parties, his character's arc was done, and he was free to move on.