Industry star Harry Lawtey has spoken about the "bromance" he struck up on and off screen with new co-star Kit Harington, who joins season three of the BBC finance hit as nominative-determinist tech bro Henry Muck.
The Game of Thrones star was a fan of the show, and contacted writers Mickey Down and Konrad Kay to volunteer his services on the trading floor.
Ahead of the third season's iPlayer release this month, Lawtey spoke to Digital Spy about getting that vote of confidence from Harington.
"It was so cool having Kit on board, especially to know that it was something that he pursued himself, which is such an affirming and validating thing for us as a cast," he told us.
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"We had a bit of a bromance going on throughout, on and off screen I suppose. He's just a brilliant guy, and he works with such levity and generosity.
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"He doesn't take himself seriously at all, but he takes the work very seriously and is incredibly well prepared. Looking back on my career so far, I found it as easy to work with him as anyone I can remember.
"It just clicked into place very simply and always felt like there was a real kismet and chemistry between us from day one."
Harington's character Henry is the CEO of an eco-friendly start-up who has deep connections in the seats of Britain's media and political power.
When Pierpoint sends Lawtey's Rob Spearing to assist in taking Muck's company public, tensions begin to flare along class lines given Rob's working-class background.
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This comes to a head early in the eight-part season, when Henry and Rob get into a fistfight in the most unlikely of places: a ball pit. Lawtey said that was filmed on their second day shooting together and the scene even included a cameo from co-creator Mickey Down's daughter.
"We were just scrambling around in that playpen," he said. "It was very bizarre, but really funny.
"Of course, the scenario is objectively ridiculous. You've got these two pathetic excuses for men squabbling in this child's playpen, but we hope there was some serious underpinning.
"It was a strange thing to shoot, because we shot it directly after the scene where they're arguing, and that was a very serious conflict and certainly speaks to the themes of the show about these environmental CEOs and whether that's all a bit of a fallacy.
"It's a real questioning of integrity for the pair of them. Then after that, we're just rolling around in a ball pit.
"So it was as bizarre as I would expect from this show at this point. I never know what it's going to be like when you turn the page and that was certainly a surreal day that I'll remember."
Industry returns to BBC One and iPlayer on October 1.
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