Charlie Heaton and Sagar Radia in 'Industry' season four. Simon Ridgway/HBO Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text [This story contains major spoilers from Industry season four and mild spoilers from the series finale of Stranger Things.] Many stories begin at the end. Charlie Heaton's Industry story is one such tale, albeit with a twist: it starts with two endings. The actor was closing up his home in Atlanta, Georgia, where he spent the better part of a decade shooting Stranger Things, the Netflix sensation now gone the way of the Upside Down. As he wrapped up one major chapter of his life, Heaton got the call that he booked his next chapter: a role on HBO's Industry, the critically adored finance drama. Where the heroes of Hawkins battled Demogorgons and Mind Flayers, the antiheroes of Industry wage a different war altogether: workplace power dynamics, sexual dominance, prolific drug use and earning the almighty dollar at any literal and more cost. Related Stories TV Gabriel Basso, Netflix's Not-So-Secret 'Agent' Man TV Netflix Un-Cancels Gina Carano for MMA Fight With Ronda Rousey Heaton would be joining the cast for season four as a brand new character. He was the very first character seen in the premiere: Jim Dycker, a finance journalist investigating high level fraud - a crusade he waged at, once again, just about any literal and moral cost. In the end, he paid the highest cost of all however, when he lost his life on the other side of a major drug bender with the show's most Uncut Gems coded character, Rishi, played with chaotic perfection by Sagar Radia. Discovering Jim dead on his couch, and hearing cops right outside the door, Rishi - whose life is already in the bin, thanks to a gambling addiction that directly led to his wife's murder in the previous season's finale - decides enough is enough. He leaps off the flat's balcony, intending to join Jim in the great beyond. Instead, he pays the moral cost, not the literal one, as he survives the fall and is taken away by police. And that's a wrap on Rishi as we know him. Signing up for the series for only four episodes, Heaton knew he was joining a well-loved show for a very specific purpose. And he knew it intimately, long before shooting the scene. In order to secure the part on Industry, Heaton taped an audition reading not just any scene as Jim, but reading the final scene as Jim, which contains a nearly nonstop drug-addled back-and-forth with Rishi. Taping the scene, capturing the final moments of a man's life, ended up being a harrowing experience, understandably, not just because of the text, but because of the text - as in, an unbelievable amount of jargon-infused dialogue. For Heaton, the result was an equally frustrated performance that mimicked Jim in his last couple of minutes on Earth - exactly what Industry creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay were seeking. It was Friday when Heaton was in Atlanta, knee-deep in packing, when he got the call that he won the part. Shooting would begin in the United Kingdom on Monday. Two endings, leading to a new beginning. Below, Heaton spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about that frenetic journey, returning from the middle America of Stranger Things to his home country on Industry, and why he can't believe there are still folks who don't believe Stranger Things has truly ended - and perhaps with good reason, given Heaton's thoughts on an eventual revival. *** What was your familiarity with Industry before signing on? Were you a fan? No, I'd heard of the show, but I'd never seen it. I heard of it as promotion for season three came around a bit heavier, and I had a few friends who were watching it. When this came around, it was really last minute for an audition. It was a dense, dense amount of dialogue in the sides. I put myself down on tape. I had an idea of roughly what I wanted to do. And then I had a chat with Konrad and Mickey, and I think I auditioned on Wednesday, had a call with them on Friday, flew from Atlanta where I was at the time, over to Cardiff to film on a Monday. The whole thing was so fast and so intimidating. I had to digest the show so fast. When you're coming onto another show, it's the first thing you have to do: understand the tone. Industry is so much about the tone. Absolutely; you don't need to know the trading jargon to understand Jimmy and Rishi are in a bad way, and that's what matters most. But you need to get a handle on the jargon, right? You need to make it sound believable, and you needed to learn that really quickly. Definitely. In the beginning, because it was coming around so fast, I was reading and reading and reading and going over all my lines almost mechanically. I knew I had to know that dialogue inside and out. Even if I didn't fully understand the whole time what