‘Industry’: Kiernan Shipka Talks Intimacy Coordination on That Scene With Kit Harington & Marisa Abela

[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Industry Season 4 Episode 3.]

HBO’s Industry is always swinging for the fences, and it just delivered one of its most audacious scenes in Season 4’s third episode. It was a sex scene involving Marisa Abela, Kit Harington, and Kiernan Shipka, one that Shipka says was choreographed in advance to give the actors a framework to hold up their performances. That’s the value of intimacy coordinating, the Mad Men alum agrees.

Yasmin (Abela) and Henry (Harington) were in Vienna on Tender business with Whitney (Max Minghella) and his assistant, and Hayley (Shipka). They stayed in a castle with a princess and her son, who was investing in the company but casually dropped thinly veiled antisemitism during dinner, and whom Henry called a fascist behind closed doors (Yasmin brushed off these concerns, but that came back to bite her later). After dinner, Hayley went on an unsuccessful Raya date, and Yasmin propositioned Hayley when she came to their bedroom with some statements for the married couple to review.