Harry Lawtey Opens Up About ‘Industry’ Departure: “I’ve Said Everything I Had to Say”

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It looks like both Harry Lawtey and his decisively less put-together on-screen counterpart, Industry‘s Robert Spearing, are getting their happy endings.

The actor opened up about the decision to depart from the slow-burning hit HBO/BBC co-production in a recent interview with the U.K.’s The Telegraph, saying that it was a thematic choice as much as it was a practical one due to scheduling issues, as previously reported by Deadline. “Ultimately I feel like I’m in a place where I’ve said everything I had to say with a character, and I think both me and the writers felt mutually happy with where we left him,” he explained.

While the star hasn’t actually watched the show (“I don’t need to, it’s not for me,” he said), he added, “There was actually a stage direction after my final line, in my final scene of the show, which literally read: ‘On Robert – transformation complete.’ And that sat really well with me.” Lawtey concluded, “Now I feel unmoored, but in a really good way.

And ready for the next chapter.” Written by former investment bankers Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, Industry — about a group of 20-somethings who deal with the high-pressure stakes of their prestigious London firm about as well as one could imagine — capped off its explosive third season by seeing Lawtey’s character move on to sunny California.