When 29-year-old Industry star Myha’la wakes up each morning, she picks from a deck of cards decorated with healing prompts from heavenly messengers. Each is a sign of a new affirmation; a focus for her day ahead. The angel cards recently encouraged her to “sever vows of poverty”. “It’s about releasing yourself from a scarcity mindset and accepting that life is taking care of you, and that abundance belongs to you,” she tells me serenely, sipping on tea in a beige-hued Berlin hotel room. “It really soothes the soul for me.”
Myha’la is calm, grounded and warm: poles apart from her Industry character, the impulsive, calculating and cold Harper Stern, whose morning routine more aptly begins with a line of cocaine and six caffeinated drinks, followed by a liquid lunch. Harper leads the masochistic world of the BBC and HBO banking drama – now three episodes into its fourth season – which follows a group of banking grads’ ascension from the merciless trading floor of a London investment bank to the upper echelons of the financial sector (think Euphoria meets Succession with a side order of Mad Men – or a Tory-stained Skins).
