‘Industry’ creators explain how Yasmin became Ghislaine Maxwell figure: “It felt very organic”

The season four finale has echoes of real life events The post ‘Industry’ creators explain how Yasmin became Ghislaine Maxwell figure: “It felt very organic” appeared first on NME. NewsTV News ‘Industry’ creators explain how Yasmin became Ghislaine Maxwell figure: “It felt very organic” The season four finale has echoes of real life events By Victoria Luxford 4th March 2026 Credit: BBC/Bad Wolf Productions/HBO/Simon Ridgway The creators of Industry have explained how real life events led to the “organic” arc of Yasmin becoming a Ghislaine Maxwell-type figure in the show. READ MORE: Every song on the ‘Industry’ season four soundtrack In the fourth season finale, Yasmin (Marisa Abela) hosts a fundraiser for right-wing politician Sebastian Stefanowicz (Robert Holcroft), for which she hires young escorts. Advertisement The scenario has echoes of Maxwell, who was convicted in 2022 for sex trafficking offenses, cultivating a network of powerful elites alongside fellow convict Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison in 2019. Their actions are the subject of the highly publicised Epstein Files, which details their interactions with powerful figures. The creators of the show, Konrad Kay and Mickey Down, spoke on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast about how real life inspired the events of the series. “With Yasmin, as beautifully played by Marisa in the first season, she was afraid of her own shadow, constantly softly stepping around, fucking up the lunch order, a bit of a wallflower,” said Kay. “And where we leave her in Season four, we just thought it was radical storytelling. It was a journey that we knew Marisa had the chops to play, and we thought that it was earned in the sense of her relationship to her own trauma.” He continued: “Because the show is contemporaneous, we pull stuff from what we’re feeling about the world, and as we were writing about the fraud element of it, there was the political element of it. It was very hard to write a season about money and politics, when we were writing it, that didn’t have some version of the ascendant face of autocracy and right-wing politics. It’s impossible to ignore on both sides of the Atlantic. It’s come to fruition horribly in the US, and it’s the rising force in the UK.” Recommended He concluded: “So, who was it from our universe that would be most susceptible to that kind of messaging, or who would find the seductions of the power offered by that the most compelling? And Yasmin felt like the site of all of that stuff for us. It felt very organic to us.” Industry has been renewed for a fifth and final season. Recently, Kay and Down argued that “finance bros” miss the point of the show. Related TopicsIndustry You May Also Like Advertisement TRENDING Harry Styles – ‘Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally’ review: pop superstar lets the light in Young Fathers on their ‘Help(2)’ song, ‘Don’t Fight The Young’: “It felt like that’s what needs to be said from us at this time” Chalk’s uncompromising dance-punk is fuelled by personal vulnerability and political questioning ‘Scream 7’ review: ghosts of horror past haunt this nostalgia-heavy sequel The biggest video game concerts you can’t miss in 2026 Advertisement More Stories News ‘Industry’ creators explain how Yasmin became Ghislaine Maxwell figure: “It felt very organic” Gaming News ‘Metaphor: ReFantazio’ announces orchestral world soundtrack tour Music News Courtney Love teases Hole reunion tour with Melissa Auf Der Maur Music News Ticketmaster’s “technology is held together by duct tape” trial hears, as Live Nation’s antitrust hearing begins: “The concert ticket industry is broken” Gaming News Poppy shares vibey ‘Marathon’ anthem ‘In Death We’ve Just Begun’ Film News Cillian Murphy didn’t know he was rumoured for Voldemort in ‘Harry Potter’ series