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HBO’s Industry can be as ruthless with its characters as they are with each other: Even beyond The Thing That Happens At The End Of Industry‘s First Episode, the show cheerfully swaps characters in and out of focus as needed, with only Myha’la Herrold’s Harper, Marisa Abela’s Yasmin, Ken Leung’s Eric, and Harry Lawtey’s Robert maintaining prominence through all three of its extant seasons. And now not even that group is sacrosanct, as Deadline reports that Lawtey won’t be appearing in the show’s upcoming fourth season.
News of Lawtey’s absence popped up earlier today, when casting notices from HBO seemed to leave his name out when citing existing cast: Deadline has now confirmed that the actor won’t be back for season 4, citing scheduling conflicts. Lawtey has become a busy guy since Industry began raising his profile: He’s set to appear in upcoming biopics Words At War and Mr. Burton, with the latter seeing him star as Richard Burton. Meanwhile, his Industry character, Robert Spearing, did hit a natural stopping point at the end of the show’s third season, having escaped the hellish orbit of Pierpont & Co. to work in sunny California. It could have led to a new arc for the series… but for a show that often suggests that the only real happy ending any of its characters could achieve would be accruing a giant pile of money and then dying on top of it from a heart attack, there are worse ways to say goodbye to Robert. (At least for now.)
Industry‘s fourth season is expected to start filming next month. The show has just cast Max Minghella in a role—Minghella’s casting announcement was what kicked the Lawtey speculation off—while Deadline also reports that Kit Harington, who had a prominent part in the show’s third season, will also be back for the fourth.
