Myha’la is not playing any games in Industry Season 4.

Blavity/Shadow and Act Film/TV columnist Sharronda Williams sat down with the actress and the rest of the cast to talk about Season 4. Myha’la’s character, Harper, lives her life on her own terms, decentering the opinions of her male-dominated field. She described Harper’s multifaceted personality as “rewarding” to play.

“One of the things that excited me the most about when I read this script in the first season for the pilot episode [is] I am nothing like Harper. I’m not in finance. But, I was watching this young Black woman do a bunch of things,” she said. “I was imagining this young Black woman doing a bunch of things I’d never seen a young Black woman do on screen before. I was so excited at the prospect that someone was giving her permission to be anything and everything.”

“She didn’t have to be a stereotype, she didn’t have to be idealistic. She didn’t have to be ethically or morally right [or] wrong. She’s not a villain. She’s not a hero. She’s just a girl. She’s just a woman with ambition and hopes and dreams and strive,” she continued. “She’s smart, but she’s subversive…and that’s what I think representation is. It gives you permission to be anything and to say whatever version of you [that] you are is a human version and it’s worthy of that story being told.”

What Harper means to Black ‘Industry’ fans

She added how the Black fans of the series have told her how much Harper means to them.

“I think I’ve been so blessed; so many people of color, so many people, period, but so many people of color in finance and not in finance have said how grateful they are for this character because it gives them permission to be any kind of person they wanna be,” she said. “I’m a Black person, not because I do this or don’t do that, or eat this or listen to that, or go here or don’t go there. My experience is singular and it is also part of a whole.”

Industry follows a group of high-powered finance brokers as they fight for money and power in their cutthroat field. This season follows Harper and Yasmin (Marisa Abela), frenemies who are battling each other as well as the personal fires in their own lives.

The series also stars Ken Leung, Miriam Petche, Max Minghella, Sagar Radia, Toheeb Jimoh, Amy James-Kelly, Roger Barclay, Andrew Havill, Charlie Heaton, Kiernan Shipka, Jack Farthing, Stephen Campbell Moore, Kal Penn, Claire Forlani and Edward Holcroft.

Watch the full interviews above.

New episodes of Industry air Sundays on HBO.