![]() ![]() 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. “But he's split his feed between two characters, and that's really, really cool.Mad Max: Fury Road was a critical and commercial triumph, grossing nearly $375 million worldwide and earning 10 Oscar nominations (with six wins). “Miller's still got Mad Max,” Hardy said. It was a very well implemented changing of the guard."īut that's not to say Furiosa will be the be-all and end-all. “If you look at it now, it was a changeover of hands in a way, from Mad Max to Furiosa. “That was ultimately Furiosa's movie, which was fantastic. For his part, he has described Fury Road as a Furiosa-centric movie in itself. Hardy hasn't been cast in Furiosa, not least because it's a prequel centred on the eponymous heroine. There's still a pretty wide valley, I believe.” “Despite the valiant attempts on The Irishman, I think there's still an uncanny valley. Miller had considered using CGI to de-age his original star, “but I just don't think we're nearly there yet,” he told The New York Times. ![]() Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, The Splendid Argharad in Fury Road, described it as “genius… I've always wondered if that movie's going to get made".īecause the film is set to focus on a younger Furiosa, Theron was swapped out for Anya Taylor-Joy. ![]() The script was written before Fury Road even began shooting, according to an interview with Miller in The New York Times. Set to release in 2024, Furiosa has been described as variously bigger, more explosive, and crazier than Fury Road. ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection But what about Mad Max: Furiosa? But there’s definitely another Mad Max project pending.” “I'm not sure it's called The Wasteland or not, ‘cause you never know. “It's a question of when,” said the British star. Hardy also confirmed his active intention to return to the franchise at an event in 2017. Is Tom Hardy still going to play Max?Īs far as we can tell from existing contracts, yes. He was typically not forthcoming as to what the film would be about, but a more traditional sequel seems the implication. “I'm not done with the Mad Max story and I think you have to be a multi-tasker and there's certainly another Mad Max coming down the pike after this,” he said. In 2019, Deadline checked in with Miller as to the status of the long-awaited sequel. ![]() Interviewed by Collider in the same year, Hardy seemed similarly confident that a prospective sequel would get into the deeper lore of the Mad Max universe: “There's mythology to do with Mad Max that spans copious amounts of tales,” he said. ![]()
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