maxminghella was in Toronto, wrapping the final season of #TheHandmaidsTale, when #Industry‘s co-creators reached out. They were looking for someone enigmatic — a description that tends to follow Minghella, partly because he rarely works in his native (British) accent.⁠ ⁠ The eight-episode commitment appealed to Minghella. The script’s dense, finance-heavy dialogue less so. The actor describes the job as “athletic” and found himself doing three to four hours of homework each night — learning how to say things like, “Add complexity to the jurisdictional fog of who audits us plus the media smokescreen of a turbo bullish headline,” without breaking into a sweat.⁠ ⁠ To help build his character’s inner isolation, he also decided to separate himself from the rest of the cast while living in Wales, where the series is shot. “I’m not a Method actor at all, but I chose to live in a different neighborhood because there was something alien about the character that I was trying to bring in.”⁠ ⁠ Re...