Industry’s Myha’la, Marisa Abela Break Down Their Characters’ Savage Scuffle: There’s ‘a Feeling of Betrayal on Both Sides’

Any questions we had about the whereabouts of Charles Hanani were officially answered in Sunday’s Industry , and the fallout from that traumatic incident only added fuel to the fiery fight between Harper and Yasmin.

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But before we hear from Marisa Abela and Myha’la about that jaw-dropping moment, a brief recap. At the top of the episode, we drop in on Yasmin in the middle of an argument with her slimeball father. After he tells her her looks are all she has and that she’s “spectacularly talentless,” she fires back that she wishes he would die. So like the crazy person that he is, he leaps off the side of his boat, but when he screams for her help, she freezes. He’s ultimately found dead, but it’s Harper that helps the catatonic Yas get through the trauma and the scandal that follows when he goes “missing.”

As if things couldn’t get any worse for the young woman (who never fails to remind us that she speaks seven languages — count ’em!), Leviathan Alpha’s attempt to short Pierpoint winds up costing Yas her job, despite Harper asking Petra to leave her friend out of it. As Eric puts it, “Some proprietary information from Pierpoint Asset Management got into the hands of a bad actor… your friend f–ked you.” When the two frenemies next come face to face, Yasmin throws the first dagger, saying “my pain is useful to you. You revel in my disgrace.”

And that’s when the fireworks really begin. “You are hardwired to exploit people’s vulnerabilities,” Yas spits, among other insults she throws Harper’s way. Harper replies, “I deserve better than this… the way you use and use and f–king take is disgusting.” Yas calls Harper a nauseating narcissist. Harper accuses Yas of playing into her sex object and victim roles, then uses the exact word that Charles used before he died: “talentless.” Ouch!

“I think the conflict comes from a feeling of betrayal on both sides, whether it’s real betrayal or a feeling of betrayal because someone has underestimated the other person,” Abela tells TVLine. “I think Yasmin feels that Harper’s actions have betrayed her trust, and I think Harper feels that the fact that Yasmin thinks that it was Harper’s intention to throw Yasmin under the bus is a betrayal of her character. It’s their lack of ability to see beyond their own sense of hurt in that moment. It’s full whack, this argument.”

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The ladies’ acerbic tête-à-tête ends with Yas slapping Harper in the face, and Harper sending one open-faced palm right on back. (Kind of hard to choose a side on this one, right?) According to Myha’la, the two women do love each other, despite all of the baggage and pent-up anger they finally unleash.

“I think this is the culmination of a lot of unsaid stuff that is triggered by them both just feeling very hurt, maybe misunderstood as well,” she says. “Yas says something like, ‘That girl on the boat loved me,’ and Harper’s like, ‘I have been protecting your ass for ages. I’ve been doing all that I can do, but you are naive to think that this business is not what it is. Everyone is collateral.’ I feel like people are going to watch this and think, ‘Oh, they’re done. That has to be the end of this relationship, period. Point blank. There is no coming back from this.’ But you know how you Harper and Yaz do. They love each other, but as twisted as it might seem, they’re sisters.”

Are you Team Harper or Team Yasmin? Any other Episode 6 thoughts? Drop them in the comments below!

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