Where do we find Harper at the beginning of the third season of Industry?

Harper is working at FutureDawn [the ethical investment fund] as Anna Gearing’s [Elena Saurel] assistant. This is the job that's kept her in London, bless her heart, and Anna’s taken a chance on her. But it means that now she is at the bottom of the totem pole. She is not exercising her skills, she holds no influence whatsoever and she's sort of just keeping her head down so that she doesn't get deported, because she doesn't want to go home. She's pretty depressed but she’s handling it, obviously and she's grateful to still be in London. She's drinking too much and going out and coming in hungover and she's not very good at her job — she's not good at keeping a diary!

How does she bounce back?

She sees an opportunity in Petra [Sarah Goldberg], who is a trader in Anna Gearing’s office. Harper piques her interest — she sees that this is a person she can intellectually engage with. For Harper, Petra is an out. She convinces her to help get her out of FutureDawn and into a place where she can start trading again.

How has your character evolved since we first met them in season one?

The biggest change in Harper is her confidence. When we meet her in season one, episode one, although outwardly she had this really hard exterior, inside she’s insecure. She has impostor syndrome, completely doubting whether or not she can have a place at Pierpoint and if she's going to be able to hack it. By the time we meet her in season three, although she's at her lowest at the start, she's been around the block. She's tried her hand at moving in this business, and it's worked. She’s got relationships, she knows inside that ‘I am successful and smart at this. I'm clever, I can make my way here.’ The thing that got in her way was nothing to do with whether or not she was capable of doing the job. So, she brings a level of confidence in this third season that we haven't seen from her before — and she’s totally earned it.

Where are the relationships between the original grads now?

There's an event that happens that bonds Yasmin and Harper eternally — trauma bonding, maybe. And I think it is the grounding thing that this relationship has always needed. We know now that these two people love each other, even if they hate each other just as much! And then when business takes the forefront for Harper and Yasmin ends up being collateral, it feels like the trust there, the familial bond that's been created is broken, and it leaves them at odds in a way that I believe to be irreparable.

How has Industry as a whole evolved since the first season?

I think our biggest explosion as a show has absolutely happened in this season. Every season we've added new faces and new conflicts outside of the bank, but in the third season it's the first time Harper, one of the main eyes into the show, is not in the bank at all, so we get to experience, for the first time, who Harper really is outside of Pierpoint. Once we're outside of Pierpoint, we then get to spend a little more time with all of these characters and their relationships outside of Pierpoint. It informs you more who they are and why they are like that. So the whole show has expanded — Mickey and Konrad are geniuses. They can write anything, and I'm obsessed with them!