Myha’la’s Relationship Advice? Get in a Fight.

Modern Love

The New York Times

Nytimes, Redemption, Society & Culture, New York Times, Love, Essay, Storytelling, Loss, Nyt

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🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On the HBO high finance drama “Industry,” basically everyone serves cruel insults. It’s part of the culture at their bank, Pierpoint. But Myha’la’s character, Harper Stern, goes after friends and enemies with deep, cutting verbal attacks. Myha’la reads a Modern Love essay by a woman with the opposite problem: Laura Pritchett and her husband have avoided conflict for so long, she writes, that the fights they’re not having are tearing them apart. Myha’la also tells the host, Anna Martin, about the kind of communication style she strives to maintain, and what it’s like when she and her fiancé, Armando Rivera, find themselves in a fight. The Season 3 finale of “Industry” drops Sunday night on HBO. Laura Pritchett has written seven novels, including her latest, “Three Keys.” Want to leave us a voice mail message on the Modern Love hotline? If so, please include your name, your hometown and a callback number in your message: (212) 589-8962‬ How to submit a Modern Love essay to The New York Times How to submit a Tiny Love Story

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin.
0:05.0	This is Modern Love.
0:10.0	Each week we bring you stories and conversations inspired by the Modern Love
0:14.8	Column. We talk about love and sex and all the messiness of
0:19.2	relationships. Today, actor Myhala. Myhala stars in the HBO series industry, which has its season
0:27.4	three finale on Sunday. The shows about the finance world and a group of
0:31.5	people who will say or do pretty much anything to win.
0:36.3	The character Myhala plays, a banking prodigy named Harper Stern, just might be the most ruthless of them all.
0:45.0	There's no room for you in the modern market.
0:48.0	A machine could do your job.
0:51.0	And it seems like she saves her most devastating insults for the people closest to her.
0:57.0	Your arrogance is just you overcompensating for the fact that you could not be any more
1:01.0	fucking ordinary.
1:04.0	You are talentless and useless
1:08.0	and a fucking fucking whore.
1:13.0	Oof, that's gotta hurt.
1:18.0	When I met my hala, she was warm and delightful by contrast, but she did hint that there might be a little bit of Harper in her somewhere.
1:27.0	I think Harper is like an alternate universe version of me had I not been raised by a Virgo.
1:35.0	So I'm an Ari's, bossy and fiery, but because my tempered mother was like you can't be an asshole just because you
1:47.2	think you're right. She has taught me like the easiest way to get your point across or get what you want
1:54.8	is to be kind.
1:56.8	Because I could be a tyrant, you know, but I choose not to be.
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