Brittany Luce

Harper is a young black American woman who has schemed her way to the top of London's finance world under the tutelage of her mentor, Eric Tao, an Asian American man.

Neither one of them fits the finance bro archetype, but they can get down with the best of them.

And now that we're wading into industry's fourth season, it's made me wonder, how has industry built upon our preconceived notions of this archetype?

Part of why I really got bought into industry really quickly, I was like, eh, is because the character of Harper was unlike any other black woman I'd seen on TV before.

There's always some level, as she sees as she continues to move up in the world, there's always some level of power that she cannot access, but it's the desire for it that is rotting her from the inside out.

One of the things that I wasn't prepared to come in with mindset-wise and understanding-wise, and I think showing it through the character of Harper is really smart, is just how different specifically English concepts of like wealth and class are from America.

It's very, very different.

And I appreciate seeing like Harper come up against that in so many ways.

And Eric as well, being the other American character on the show.

I'm really glad you brought up the great Gatsby Roxanna, because I kind of think about some of the characters in that book as finance bros.

They're like from a century ago, but totally valid.

I wonder, what are your thoughts on how industry has handled the world of finance so far?

Because I think about like,

And Wolf of Wall Street, it's presented as this big party.

Same thing with The Great Gatsby.

It's this big party.

And American Psycho.

I mean, obviously, there's a lot of murder that happens in that movie, in the book.

But it's almost like Regency-era England for me.

It's full of all these inane social codes.