He’s a bulldog, he’s going to protect George no matter what, at all costs. Kelly Marcel: Doug wouldn’t let Denise actually be on the set. But when I was on set, I still felt pretty naked and alone. If the call time was in the morning, forget it-he didn’t show up.Ĭharlize Theron: She was parked in the production office, and she was checking in with me and we would talk. He was notorious for never being on time in the morning. Charlize got there right at eight o’clock, sat in the War Rig, knowing that Tom’s never going to be there at eight even though they made a special request for him to be there on time. Mark Goellnicht: I remember vividly the day. You’re like, Come on, it’s midnight and we want to go home.Įventually, veteran producer Denise Di Novi was dispatched to Namibia to mediate the conflict between the film’s two stars.Ĭharlize Theron: I don’t want to rehash things, but it came out of a really bad moment where things kind of came to blows between me and Tom. Tom Clapham (production runner, Fury Road) : Tom was more in his trailer a lot of the time and would come out for the takes-and sometimes not on time, either. Matt Taylor (stunt driver, Fury Road ): And when you’ve got someone like Tom who’s a larrikin and is late and very Method in his performances, just in sheer personality, there was always going to be a clash. Sometimes I would just call her and say, “We’re going to be ready in an hour,” and I knew she would always get in the car, get her makeup on, and get on set. Samantha McGrady (key second assistant director, Fury Road) : Charlize is the easiest person to deal with in terms of, Okay, we’re ready. Mark Goellnicht (camera operator, Fury Road ): Between Tom and Charlize, it was literally the most contrast I’ve ever seen between two actors. Let’s be nice to each other.” We were functioning, in a weird way, like our characters: Everything was about survival. Which, weirdly, is why the film works: It’s all pouring out on the screen.Ĭharlize Theron: Because of my own fear, we were putting up walls to protect ourselves instead of saying to each other, “Fuck, this is scary for you and it’s scary for me, too. They’re both powerhouses, but in their very different ways of working. Charlize is cerebral and very consistent in the way that she approaches a character. Kelly Marcel (screenwriter and friend of Tom Hardy): Tom is very physical and all over the place and would try very different things. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (“The Splendid Angharad”): It was very interesting to sit in a truck for four months with Tom and Charlize, who have completely different approaches to their craft. In the exclusive excerpt below, the film’s cast and crew recall one of Fury Road’ s biggest hurdles: the bad blood between stars Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy. But its path to the big screen was torturous and winding, as Kyle Buchanan shows in his oral history Blood, Sweat and Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road, out Tuesday. “That is what’s truly terrifying to some men – not that Theron has more lines than actor Tom Hardy.Mad Max: Fury Road was a critical and commercial triumph, grossing nearly $375 million worldwide and earning 10 Oscar nominations (with six wins). “It’s not feminist because Theron’s character gets to engage in as much violence as any other action lead, but because the world director and writer George Miller has created shows the horror of sexism and the necessity of freedom from patriarchy,” wrote the Guardian’s Jessica Valenti. Miller first alluded to the prospect of an Imperator Furiosa film in January 2016, telling Entertainment Weekly: “She’s a pretty compelling character, so it’d be great to tell her story … Her backstory is pretty interesting we only allude to it in this movie.” But Mad Max sequels have been held up, after Miller’s production company sued Warner Bros for unpaid earnings from Fury Road.Īlthough it was controversial among the men’s rights activist groups who derided the decision to have a female-led Mad Max film, Fury Road won six Oscars, netted US$375.2m at the global box office, and was praised by feminist critics for its dystopian depiction of the effects of male patriarchy. Hemsworth – who will begin filming the next movie in the Thor franchise in Australia in March – will star alongside her in Furiosa, as will Abdul Mateen II, who starred as Black Manta in Aquaman and is currently filming the fourth Matrix film. She also had a lead role in the 2016 horror film Split and its 2019 sequel Glass. Taylor-Joy, an American-born Argentinian-British actor who is currently starring as a chess genius in The Queen’s Gambit, most recently played Emma Woodhouse in the 2020 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. □ #FURIOSA - Anya Taylor Joy October 13, 2020
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