{"id":499329,"date":"2026-03-02T13:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/499329\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:24:10","slug":"industry-star-kit-harington-weighs-season-4-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/499329\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Industry’ Star Kit Harington Weighs Season 4 Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the Season 4 finale of Industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince Kit Harington<\/a> ended his run as the upstanding Jon Snow on Game of Thrones, he\u2019s been looking for \u201call the kind of messed up people\u201d to play instead. Sir Henry Muck, the wealthy aristocrat with plenty of baggage who entered HBO<\/a>\u2018s Industry last season, certainly fit that bill.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the Season 4 finale of the financial drama series, which aired Sunday night, Henry is once again hitting a rock bottom of sorts. This time, rather than a mental breakdown, his professional life is collapsing around him as Tender\u2019s fraudulent schemes unravel and CFO Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella) is getting out of dodge ASAP.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think he probably fails as a CEO, where he failed as an MP, that he\u2019s so wrapped up in self that he\u2019s not seeing the full picture,\u201d Harington mused about the character\u2019s downfall this season. He adds that Henry\u2019s lack of perspective is exactly the thing that continues to make him an easy target for manipulation and exploitation \u2014 which is levied toward him this season not only by Whitney but also by his wife Yasmin (Marisa Abela). <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think some of the conversations we\u2019ve had around how certainly Henry feels about Whitney anyway is that he\u2019s slightly hypnotized by him; he\u2019s entranced by and also sees him as the person he kind of wants to be, business-wise \u2014 like he wants to be more like Whitney,\u201d Harington continued.<\/p>\n

\n\tUntil he doesn\u2019t. While Henry does nearly go on the lamb with Whitney, he comes to his senses aboard the small passenger plane before it leaves the runway, headed to drop the two fugitives aboard in Lithuania. He lashes out at Whitney before storming off the plane and, in some ways, facing the consequences of his participation in the Tender scheme. If someone of his stature can ever truly face any meaningful consequence for white collar crime. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn the interview below, Harington unpacks the episode and weighs whether he believes this is the end of Henry\u2019s story on Industry.<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: Toward the beginning of the episode, Yasmin tells Henry she doesn\u2019t love him anymore and that she\u2019s going to leave him, and he is obviously blindsided. You really just see the truth of them both so plainly \u2014 what was it like to film that scene with Marisa? What\u2019s your read on how Henry is processing that moment?<\/p>\n

\n\tKIT HARINGTON: God, yes, that scene. I mean, it\u2019s such combustious relationship. They yell at each other. They\u2019re pretty close to throwing things at each other. It\u2019s a toxic relationship. It was always going to be that. With that scene, there was an option, I think \u2014 it was always written sort of sensitively, but you always have an option. How heated are they going to get? We\u2019ve seen Henry be thrown under the bus by Yasmin and his uncle. He might come into that room raging, screaming and doing what they\u2019ve done before. The more interesting choice was: What if the dregs of what love they did have for each other are still there? The thing that was really important to me and Marisa all the way through was to try and find the moments where you see these people are actually in love. It might be an unhealthy type of love, but there is love there.I think that that\u2019s what we wanted to capture with that final sort of breakup, was that there\u2019s tenderness for each other.<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: I also feel like these moments also kind of get to the humanity underneath the facade. These are very powerful people who have made many careless decisions that have harmed so many people. Yet, you see this brokenness in them in this moment. Can you talk about that in regard to Henry, particularly since he is really at rock bottom mentally this season?<\/p>\n

\n\tHARINGTON: I think in that scene there was a moment where he talked about kids, and that seemed like the very clear point in the scene for me where he breaks, and she sort of says, \u2018I never wanted that. What made you think that I wanted kids?\u2019 It\u2019s so heartbreaking because you realize he\u2019s not been listening to her. He\u2019s not been seeing her for who she is. He\u2019s been totally wrapped up in himself, and of course, at some point, they were going to have kids, and she was going to support him and be this doting, supportive wife to his genius. It\u2019s that blinkered thing that we have with Henry, where he says, \u2018But we were going to have kids.\u2019 And she goes, \u2018What are you talking about?\u2019 And he says, \u2018But, we\u2019re Catholic, for fuck sake.\u2019 He\u2019s not listened to her. He\u2019s not seen her, and he\u2019s not understood who she is on basic level.<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: While many of Henry\u2019s shortcomings may be obvious to the audience, they certainly don\u2019t seem to always be obvious to him. He\u2019s really being confronted with them in this episode, but even then, do you think he really accepts that? When we leave him in that final scene, fishing with his uncle and Lord Mostyn, has he realized anything about himself? <\/p>\n

\n\tHARINGTON: Mickey and Konrad are wonderful when they direct, especially because they completely hear you with ideas that you have. One of the ideas I had with that scene was, like, on the original idea was he\u2019s left with the lithium pills, and he\u2019s depressed, and he\u2019s got a tag around his ankle, and that\u2019s it. And I said to the boys, \u2018I think we need to end him on an up. I think he needs to catch a fish, and you see the addict in him come out again, and you know that this guy is gonna be fine doing what he does like. He\u2019s always gonna get another chance. There\u2019s always going to be another fish. That addict in him is always going to go again if he lets it. So that was that, that was our idea for that, and I was really happy we did that. In answer to your question more widely, I think, does Henry ever learn? I don\u2019t know. I think it\u2019s that awful thing of, like, our personalities are formed when we\u2019re seven, right? It\u2019s a terrifying thing about being a dad with my two. There\u2019s some statistic. Your personality is formed when you\u2019re seven. I can\u2019t feel that about Henry, [that] he\u2019s always going to fall in the same trap. Actually, I do believe this in all the people in this show, outwardly, if you look at what he\u2019s trying to do, he is trying to do good. He says, \u2018I want to be a better person. I want to do good. Isn\u2019t that what this is about?\u2019 It\u2019s just that his personality flaws are so fundamental and so entrenched that he will always do bad by trying to do good.<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: There is something very child-like about that scene, and it\u2019s not the first time that we see that with Henry. I think it helps illustrate the point that he\u2019s going to be fine.<\/p>\n

\n\tHARINGTON: He is and he isn\u2019t, isn\u2019t he? I mean, he\u2019s never going to be fine as a human being. He\u2019s always going to be damaged, but it\u2019s how much he, given the opportunity, is allowed to spread that damage. He needs to step back and realize that he\u2019s got everything he needs, and more of it than he needs. Go and be a quiet, good person rather than try and change the world. That\u2019s how it gets everyone into trouble. I think he will always be protected. I think that the child-like thing was something we really did investigate quite a lot this season. We spoke a lot \u2014 me, Max and Marisa \u2014 about Marisa being mummy and Max being daddy and to this child-like being. I think there\u2019s moments where we implanted him, sort of nuzzling up to [Yasmin] like she\u2019s his mom, yelling at [Whitney] like he\u2019s his dad, looking up to him like he\u2019s his dad, being manipulated by [them]. I think that all played into that child-like quality.<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: Speaking of Whitney, I was hoping you could talk about the devolution of that relationship this season to lead them to the point where Henry refuses to go on the run with Whitney. Where is Henry\u2019s perspective on that decision coming from?<\/p>\n

\n\tHARINGTON: It\u2019s, again, one of those odd things to be proud of him for. There\u2019s no part of me that should be proud of Henry yelling in someone\u2019s face. He calls him a peasant\u2026but there\u2019s something about him in that moment that owns who he is again, that says, \u2018Yes, I\u2019m a fucking top. I\u2019m not this guy in this passport. I\u2019m not gonna run with you. I\u2019m not Lithuanian. I\u2019m Henry Muck, and from here, this is who I am,\u2019 and owns it in a really unashamed way\u2026The best thing that happens to him this season is being able to shout that at Whitney, and then he crashes and burns again. What\u2019s coming out of his mouth is absolutely appalling. But in some ways, I was like, \u2018At least he\u2019s owning who he is.\u2019 He\u2019s not trying to pretend he\u2019s a man of the people, or being a Tory politician, where he\u2019s going around council estates telling them he knows how they feel. He\u2019s saying, \u2018I\u2019m this. This is a way out.\u2019<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: What do you think triggers him to get to that point? When he looks at that passport, is it just the thought of being a civilian that sends him over the edge?<\/p>\n

\n\tHARINGTON: I think it\u2019s as simple as that, yeah. That was always one of those lines that I love, where he goes, \u2018What the fuck is this?\u2019 And it\u2019s this moment of clarity where he\u2019s, like, \u2018Do you know what? I\u2019ll go to jail. I\u2019ll face up to all this. I\u2019ll die in jail, [rather] than be this person on the run with you.\u2019 I guess he has been a fake so much, but this is a moment where I think he kind of goes, \u2018No, I\u2019m not going to run from this. Yeah, I\u2019m an English gentleman, and I\u2019m going to stand up.\u2019 That\u2019s kind of how he feels in that moment. That\u2019s not me.<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: Do you think this is the end for Henry on Industry?<\/p>\n

\n\tHARINGTON: I don\u2019t know. I just saw they got another season, final season<\/a>, which is brilliant. My personal feeling is, I think that\u2019s right. I think they\u2019ve got another season to tell. I think it would be amazing, whether he\u2019s in it or not. I don\u2019t know yet.<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: Over the course of these two seasons, how do you feel like you settled into this character? What were the most difficult parts of playing him?<\/p>\n

\n\tHARINGTON: I know him on a number of levels, and he was always very clear to me who he was. There\u2019s a lot of things we share, like not least addictive cycles in my past and in his present. His certain kind of chaotic way of living his life that combats this maudlin side of him, I related to. I would say that it wasn\u2019t difficult playing him, but it was actually just a joy. Every time you get to step on as him, there\u2019s always the opportunity for something farcical and ridiculous that is fun to experiment, and then you give them all the options and they can play with it. I also don\u2019t think I\u2019ve played quite such a tragic [character]. I think there\u2019s strangely great joy there when you\u2019ve got the opportunity.<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: There is so much range with Henry.<\/p>\n

\n\tHARINGTON: I hope there\u2019s something to say about men there. I\u2019m not quite sure what it is. There\u2019s something about pride and being male and not knowing how to deal with one\u2019s inner world, stuck in some strange, archaic template of what a man should be, which is interesting.<\/p>\n

\n\tDEADLINE: You\u2019ve really branched out since Thrones. You also had The Dreadful come out recently, and of course we all saw the stories about you and Sophie [Turner] not particularly enjoying kissing one another\u2026but what can you tell me about what attracted you to that role? How does that translate to kind of the overall direction you want to take your career?<\/p>\n

\n\tHARINGTON: Yeah, I love that role. When Sophie sent me that project, it was a role that spoke to me, because he was this greedy guy, and I was quite interested in that greedy thing, that he wanted her as an object. Also the time that was set in\u2026So getting a chance to kind of investigate what our people felt then like then, detached and all over the place, I think. It was [another] kind of medieval thing with Sophie, but totally different characters and shapes of the characters. I think Jon Snow is the most difficult role I\u2019ve ever played. It\u2019s very difficult to be that good and that sort of humble and honest and retain something interesting about the character. So I\u2019m looking for all the kind of messed up people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the Season 4 finale of Industry. Since Kit Harington ended his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,1035,7263,59487,92],"class_list":["post-499329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo","tag-industry","tag-kit-harington","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}