Session 122: Marisa Abela
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Are you ready? Yeah. Marisa Bella is here. Yay. I mean, no introduction needed on my end.
Yeah. Well, I think for a little bit.
She plays Yaz in the best show on television. I'll die by that. Industry on HBO. And I have been an industry fan since COVID.
That's great.
Yeah. We've talked about this. And it took people a minute to catch on.
Like yesterday.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Unfortunately, this episode is going to contain spoilers because I do need to talk about it all.
I think so. Also, I think by this point, it's too much to be like, no, spoil it. You've got to get watching it now.
The character development of Yaz.
Yeah.
Reminds me of Daenerys in Game of Thrones.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Kind of, right?
Yeah, totally.
You want her to win so bad. What the fuck is going on?
I know. I mean, also, especially if we rewind to the beginning of season one, like, this is a girl walking in carrying salads, super vulnerable, super scared, getting bullied at work, not sure if she's, like, ever going to be able to say anything, like, boo to a goose. And suddenly... Like, we're here.
I just feel like she gets screwed over. What was it? The end of season one was Harper screwing her over with the HR complaint.
Yeah.
Season two. How did season two? Season two.
Season two, her father cut her off.
Right.
Yeah. So she's left with, she has no money. Right. At the end of season two and she's locked out of her apartment. She's like fiddling with her keys and she's locked out of her apartment. Her father's cut her off. So then season three, she's living with Harper and Rob. Oh, I miss Rob. I know. I know. Me too. I miss him.
How has Yaz’s character evolved from season 1 to season 4 and what turning points shaped her?
She's such a soft, gooey, gushy part of the show that now doesn't exist.
I mean, that season three finale, I honestly might rewatch it tonight just to feel something.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also because I think, I mean, there are so many turning points for Yasmin. Like, so many turning points for who she, like, for the evolution of, like, the woman that we see now in front of us at the end of season four. That's a big one. Yeah. At the end of season three, that choice. Yeah. That choice that she makes.
That defines the rest of her.
It totally does. Right? She makes a choice and she's like, I want that. And then obviously what if season four happens, but. I was saying as well, I think the biggest turning point for Yasmin as a character actually is there's a moment in season two where there's a character, Kenny, the Northern Irish. Yeah. Yeah. Connor McNeil is like one of my favorite people on the planet. He's so good. And he comes up and she's in a meeting and he says something to her about the fact that I can't believe you would let this happen to Venetia. And he bullied her for the whole of season one. And Yasmin goes in and for the first time, we see like the gun finger come out and her being like, who the fuck? Oh, I remember on the trading floor, right?
Yeah. And like she, I think that's, that was a moment that I think Mickey and Kawhi, the writers were like, oh, Marisa could be like a gangster. I don't know about where she's going, but 100%, I think what Mickey and Kawhi were like, were thinking was, where how far can we push the audience's allegiances you know like this is a woman who has also the amazing thing about television as like a long form art form i guess is you have years to live with the character so we're not asking people to jump in after like 20 minutes of exposition and being like and this is how like right someone comes to these decisions we're saying You've seen everything that happened to her, for her, about her, for like the last five years.
This is the culmination of all of those things. How do you feel now?
And it's like... Okay, so the thing about me is I'm a little stupid in the head. So I actually didn't understand what was going on in season four. Like I understood that Harper and Eric... we're short, we're betting on the loss of... Yeah, tender. Of tender.
Betting on tender losing. That's like, that's what you need to know.
Right. Okay, great.
That's what I... You got it.
100%. Because I was like, wait, I feel like I'm... But then how...
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:12–1:54
2
How has Yaz’s character evolved from season 1 to season 4 and what turning points shaped her?
1:54–21:48
3
Why did the writers take Industry into darker territory in season 4 (including sex trafficking)?
21:48–25:12
4
What were the toughest and most intense scenes Marisa filmed this season and how did she prepare?
25:12–55:51
5
How did Marisa first get cast as Yasmin on Industry and what was her audition story?
55:51–1:28:52