Ken Leung on Building His 'Industry' Character Through His Own Experience as an Outsider

The main characters on HBO's 'Industry' — Harper, Eric, Yasmin, Rishi and even Sweetpea — are a band of outsiders in the conservative (e.g. white man's world) of finance.

A Black American woman, a Chinese-American man, a media heiress of Lebanese descent, a South Asian bro and a striking blonde whose side hustle includes sex-positive social media posts — these are not the folks who could break the glass ceiling in a tony London brokerage.

This was key to understanding how Leung approached his role.