"It's noon on a Friday and the 38-year-old star and I are enjoying Pepsi and overcheesed pizza in a nearly empty bowling alley in Times Square. Nearby, a group of teenagers playing hooky take turns at their lane as 2010s pop music videos - a lot of One Direction and Charlie Puth - play in the background. There's an antiseptic smell in the air."
"A supremely abrasive yet fan-favorite character slightly older than the recent grads who surround him at a London-based investment firm, Rishi spent most of Industry's first season delivering an incessant stream of lewd commentary - "He's a limp-dick analyst, but he has a view"; "I don't wanna see anything else apart from his balls" - on the Pierpoint & Co. trading floor."
"But as the series matured from soapy workplace drama into sweaty financial thriller, Rishi's cocksure grasping epitomized both the more-is-more fixations of the capitalist class and the show's own expanding narrative ambitions. Rishi does coke and hooks up with Myha'la's power-hungry American Harper Stern in the bathroom at his wedding to a posh white socialite. A standout season-three episode, " White Mischief," chronicles his attempts to assimilate into life in the British countryside"
Sagar Radia meets in a Times Square bowling alley, sharing pizza and Pepsi before discussing his role as Rishi Ramdani on HBO's Industry. Rishi is a fast-talking, abrasive trader whose crude on-floor commentary made him a fan favorite. The character evolves from workplace lewdness into darker territory, indulging in cocaine and an affair with Harper Stern while accruing massive gambling debt. Season three follows his attempts to assimilate into country life and evade creditors, culminating in a finale where his debtors execute his wife at their kitchen table.
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