{"id":240346,"date":"2026-01-16T00:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/240346\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T00:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:32:13","slug":"kiernan-shipka-inteview-on-industry-series-and-mad-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/240346\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiernan Shipka Inteview on Industry Series and Mad Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tKiernan Shipka<\/a> didn\u2019t just act as a child \u2014 she grew up inside one of the most canonized dramas of the modern TV era. For seven seasons on Mad Men<\/a>, she played Sally Draper, the watchful daughter taking in the adult mess around her: the drinking, the lies, the infidelity. Now, nearly two decades later, she\u2019s back on Sunday night television, participating in the drinking, the lies and the infidelity on Industry<\/a>, HBO\u2019s gleefully amoral finance drama.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 26-year-old actress\u2019 arrival is part of a near-total overhaul of the show as it enters its fourth season. Pierpoint, the fictional bank that once anchored Industry, has been dismantled, leaving only Myha\u2019la, Marisa Abela and Ken Leung from the original cast. In their place are new power centers and new players, including Max Minghella as the CEO of a Venmo-like startup called Tender \u2014 with Shipka stepping in as his assistant, a role that turns out to be far more consequential than it appears.<\/p>\n

\n\tShipka hadn\u2019t even seen Industry when her agents first floated the opportunity. But the show\u2019s reputation \u2014 especially for its willingness to depict sex, drugs and ethical gray zones \u2014 preceded it, and the audition material sealed the deal. \u201cThe sides were crazy,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe timing didn\u2019t hurt, either. After Mad Men, Shipka spent four seasons headlining Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, an Archie-adjacent Netflix adaptation that built a solid-enough genre fan base but didn\u2019t quite reposition her as a serious grown-up actress. When it wrapped, Shipka found herself thinking more deliberately about what she wanted the next phase of her career to look like, gravitating toward more overtly adult material, including parts in Osgood Perkins\u2019 Longlegs and Gia Coppola\u2019s The Last Showgirl.<\/p>\n

\n\tStill, the stretch after Sabrina wasn\u2019t entirely clarifying. Even as she took on darker parts, Shipka still found herself figuring things out. That\u2019s when a mentor offered a suggestion: Step back and live a little. \u201cTo have fun, make mistakes, get messy \u2014 and let that feed back into the work,\u201d she recalls.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat advice landed differently for someone whose version of \u201cgrowing up\u201d had already unfolded on a studio lot. Though she was born in Chicago, Shipka moved to Los Angeles at age 6, shortly before starting Mad Men, and came of age inside a working television set, where co-stars blurred into family friends. Jon Hamm showed up at her birthday parties. Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet spent time living in her family\u2019s guest house after they met on the set of an indie film. Hollywood wasn\u2019t a distant industry she entered later \u2014 it was the backdrop of her adolescence.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tShipka returns to prestige television on HBO\u202fMax\u2019s buzzy banking drama. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of HBO<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a strange bit of timing, that backdrop has suddenly come back into view. Mad Men has recently landed on HBO Max, introducing Sally Draper to a whole new generation of viewers. \u201cWhat\u2019s incredible about Mad Men is that people are still finding it,\u201d Shipka says. \u201cOn top of being known as the kid from the show, there are also a lot of people watching it now and \u2018discovering\u2019 a 6-year-old version of me for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tClearly, one of the things that appealed to Shipka about Industry was the chance for people to meet a very different version of her. Her character, Hailey, initially registers as a familiar presence before revealing a far more pivotal role in the show\u2019s evolving power structure. The details of that arc will be gradually breadcrumbed through the season \u2014 audiences won\u2019t get the full picture right away \u2014 although Shipka says she couldn\u2019t wait to learn the plot twists. She pressed Industry creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay for answers. \u201cThey indulged me,\u201d she says, \u201cso I always knew where she was headed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhatever narrative curveballs the role required, the experience of making the show was anything but fraught. That was particularly the case during the filming of a sequence in which Shipka found herself dancing to a New Order tune in a London nightclub. Scenes like that \u2014 which require actors to simulate abandon while a full crew looks on \u2014 can be excruciating to film. On Industry, though, they found a way to make it feel closer to the real thing. The production rented out a nightclub in Cardiff, Wales, where the series shoots, and brought in DJ friends to re-create an actual night out.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe rehearsal was awkward,\u201d Shipka says. \u201cBut when we actually filmed, it was surreal how fun it was.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis story appeared in the Jan. 15 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiernan Shipka didn\u2019t just act as a child \u2014 she grew up inside one of the most canonized…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,2069,46,129413,98569],"class_list":{"0":"post-240346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-industry","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-kiernan-shipka","14":"tag-mad-men"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}