Creators Discuss Ghislaine Maxwell's Influence on 'Industry' Character Yasmin

Will SayreMon, March 2, 2026 at 5:03 AM UTC

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If you're a fan of edgy television and not yet familiar with Industry, now is the time to brush up.

The acclaimed HBO show's fourth season came to a close on Sunday, March 1, with a fifth and final installment already confirmed.

Fans have already voiced their thoughts about season 4 in the comments section of HBO/Industry's recent finale-centric Instagram post. "What a season, what a series. Can’t wait for season 5," wrote one Instagram user, while another person simply wrote, "Yasmin became the father😢."

Regarding the latter comment, others referenced a public figure who has been making plenty of headlines amid the Epstein files. "Yasmin Kara Hanani Maxwell," one person commented, while another Instagram user wrote, "yasmin to ghislaine."

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To make things explicitly clear — fans, viewers and critics have noticed parallels between the fictional character Yasmin (played by Marisa Abela) and real-life inmate Ghilaine Maxwell. And as the latest season's finale came to air, the masterminds behind Industry addressed the similarities in a new interview.

"We talked about Ghislaine Maxwell in the Season 3 writers’ room, and it was more the biographical elements," show co-creator Mickey Downtold Variety in an article that published Sunday. "That story was interesting. We always talked about Robert Maxwell — his fraud, the fact that he named this boat after his daughter. They had a slightly inappropriate relationship. I can’t speak for Ghislaine Maxwell, or understand her motivations whatsoever. But we found certain biographical elements of her story interesting, quite frankly."

Down continued, "But I feel like the one-to-one comp between Ghislaine Maxwell and Yasmin is to do a disservice to Yasmin as a character. Yasmin has been a victim of trauma, a victim of abuse. She can’t really formulate what that abuse was, but there’s definitely a sort of inappropriate relationship with sex and her parentage, which has been there basically since Season 2. The first scene with her father, he’s commenting on her body and how she looks. So that’s always been there. It was never supposed to be a character study about how trauma begets trauma."

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