Manori Ravindran International EditorMyha’la Herrold knows a thing or two about being a fish out of water. The recent Carnegie Mellon graduate left the U.S.
for the first time to test for a job. But not just any job: her first series regular role as the lead in “Industry,” a major new drama for HBO.
Now she texts with Lena Dunham, who directed the show’s first episode.“Her spirit was a through line,” Herrold beams, speaking to Variety from New York. “I was always talking to Lena because we’re like homies.
I want to create things in the way she does.”The young actor’s character, Harper, is the driving force behind the Bad Wolf-produced drama, one of the rare shows to make “sexy banking drama” not sound like such an oxymoron.
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