Industry Season 3 Episode 8 “Infinite Largesse” finally sees Yasmin (Marisa Abela) confronting her feelings for Robert (Harry Lawtey). After a whole season of Yasmin turning to Robert for support, while also dallying with aristocrat CEO Henry Muck (Kit Harington), the HBO show â and Viscount Norton (Andrew Havill) â finally made our girl choose. Would she go for the working class Welsh boy she adored or the super posh mess that reminded her of her father?
**Spoilers for Industry Season 3 Episode 8 “Infinite Largesse,” now streaming on Max**
Well, it seems like Yasmin sort of chose both.
First, she spirits Robert into the gardens of the Henry Muck’s family estate for a flirty escape. The two soon begin to kiss, which leads to a deeply passionate sex scene on a bench. Unlike a lot of Industry’s sex scenes, this one doesn’t feel like a raw moment of kink so much as a consummation of a deep, abiding love. Not only does Yasmin literally tell Robert she loves him, but he reciprocates. She also tells him to “cum inside” her.
When Decider told Industry star Harry Lawtey that the scene felt like the pair were making love, not just having sex, he agreed.
“I’m really glad you feel that way. That was absolutely our kind of objective with the scene,” Lawtey said. “I think it’s a testament to the way the show is written, especially in relation to a sexual kind of content.”
“We always want to show a really broad spectrum of sexuality and intimate experience in the show. We want it to always feel complex and meaningful and ultimately revealing about the characters, their wants and needs as human beings. And I think that scene is kind of indicative of that,” Lawtey said.
Yasmin’s declaration of love comes weeks after she also told Robert she’s not sure she’s capable of love. Decider asked Industry star Marisa Abela if she thought Yasmin truly meant it when she said she loved Robert or not.
“I think in that moment she loves him. I do. I think she loves him very much,” Abela said. “I think that there is a huge amount of romantic love there for Robert, but is she in love with him in a way she can completely let herself go and wants the absolute best for him and a level of intimacy where she feels she can be completely herself around him? No, no.”
“But I don’t think Yasmin ever felt like that with anyone and she doesn’t feel like that with Henry, either,” she continued. “But Henry offers her enough other things that it doesn’t matter.”
Because Yasmin can’t quite be fully emotionally intimate with Robert, she does something that some viewers could be confused by. After making love in the garden, Yasmin goes to Henry Muck and agrees to marry him. Robert only learns this thanks to a celebratory toast at dinner. Before the episode ends, Robert leaves Yasmin on good terms, but heartbroken ones.
Yasmin has chosen to embrace the toxic aristocratic world that birthed her, ultimately setting her up to be, finally, a real Lady Yasmin.
“I also think that Yasmin feel less judgment from Henry than she does from Robert. I think in all of those episodes leading up to that moment, you know, all of this stuff in the car, Yasmin isnât fully allowed to be herself around Robert is the truth,” Abela said. “You know the best parts of herself, maybe, but only in terms of what Robert sees as the best parts of her.”
“And I think Henry allows an element of just the naked Yasmin that is comfortable.”
Yasmin might wind up marrying Henry, but the emotional impact of her tryst with Robert in the garden still feels monumental.
“Of course, there’s a lot of context to it and it’s been building for a long time, but, for me, it felt like a really wonderful moment to show that these two young people have hearts and care,” Lawtey said. “Even though they are functioning in an ecosystem that is unsympathetic to those ideas, they’re human at the end of the day.”
“I suppose I just hope it lands for the fans of the show and feels worth the wait.”
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