After filming three seasons of Industry, Marisa Abela said she’s “more careful now about what it is that’s being seen” when it comes to her frequent sex scenes.
The actress, who plays Yasmin in the popular HBO banking drama, recently told The Times of London that while she likes that her character is comfortable with her sexuality, she’s personally learned to speak up regarding what she’s comfortable with when filming intimate scenes.
“I don’t necessarily push back on the sex. I understand that it’s part of the show. I think I’m just more careful now about what it is that’s being seen,” Abela said. “The nudity aspect is not something that I minded in season one or two — it was like, ‘If it’s in my contract, I’ll do it.’ It was part of Yasmin and part of the fact that she was so comfortable with herself and she’s very free. And it didn’t have a lot of emotional weight for me.”
The Back to Black star continued, “It’s not like anyone would have made me do something that I didn’t want to do, but I didn’t necessarily want to question the directors. But I think now I’m more aware of the implications of doing it over and over again. And I’m more aware that I have the ability to say, ‘Do you mind staying on my back rather than coming round the front? You get the idea from my back that I’m not wearing anything.’”
Abela told the newspaper that she was initially drawn to playing the publishing heiress turned financial analyst because “it was exciting to play a young woman who is not crippled by hatred of her own body.”
“Her flaws, the gaping holes in her confidence, are not based around her sensuality, her sexuality, her body — that’s actually where she gets most of her power from,” the Rogue Agent actress explained. “And she tells the world that she is completely comfortable in her own skin and therefore people feel comfortable physically around her.”
Season three of Industry, also starring Myha’la, Harry Lawtey, Ken Leung and Sagar Radia, is currently streaming on HBO. The show has also been renewed for a fourth season.
