I thought, “They’ve been in preproduction for 10 years, let’s just go make it.” JOHN SEALE (cinematographer) I couldn’t make head nor tail of it, so I gave up. It was one of the strangest scripts I’d ever seen, because it was like a really long comic book. KRAVITZ When they cast me, I was brought to a room that I wasn’t allowed to leave, and I sat there and read the script. We had no idea if we’d get chosen or not, and out of my group, I was the only one who got selected. They’d have bunches of us, five to six girls, go through this audition process with no scenes from the film but a lot of improv, a lot of acting-class stuff. RILEY KEOUGH (Capable, another one of the Immortan’s escaped “wives”) They were holding crazy, nontraditional auditions in Australia.
So I was like, “Oh yeah, I wanna be in a ‘Mad Max’ movie. I remember being 12 and my dad letting me watch it with him. The nature and sheer scale and volume of action set pieces was unlike anything I had experienced.ĬHARLIZE THERON (Furiosa) I grew up on all the “Mad Max” movies - they’re very popular in South Africa. TOM HARDY (Max) I hadn’t done that much action at that time, certainly not with this level of involvement. You don’t know what’s going on in their inner depths, and yet they’re enormously attractive. MILLER I had the same feeling about Tom that I had when Mel Gibson first walked into the room: There was a kind of edgy charm, the charisma of animals. ZOË KRAVITZ (Toast, one of the five “wives” fleeing Immortan Joe) I did a chemistry test with Jeremy Renner reading for Max, because they hadn’t hired Tom yet. MITCHELL Mel is obviously blighted by a number of things that everyone in the world knows about, even though he’s a highly gifted filmmaker and a brilliant actor and a lovely guy behind that demon that sometimes pops out.
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Though its post-apocalyptic plot is deceptively simple - road warrior Max (Tom Hardy) and the fierce driver Furiosa (Charlize Theron) must race across the desert to escape the vengeful Immortan Joe and his fleet of kamikaze War Boys - filming the movie was anything but easy. So how did Miller and his cast pull it off and survive to tell the tale?įive years after “ Fury Road” was released, I asked 20 of its key players what making it was like. “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho said last year that the scale of the movie brought him to tears, while Steven Soderbergh put it more bluntly: “I don’t understand how they’re not still shooting that film,” he said in a 2017 interview, “and I don’t understand how hundreds of people aren’t dead.” “ Mad Max: Fury Road” set a new high-water mark for action filmmaking when it came out in 2015, and no summer blockbuster since has been able to match its turbocharged ingenuity.Įven Oscar-winning auteurs have been awed by George Miller’s operatically staged spectacle. If you’ve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the .uk entertainment team by emailing us calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we’d love to hear from you.The characters were intriguing, the stunts were exhilarating, and every frame was bursting with incredible, how’d-they-do-that nerve. uk has reached out to Theron and Hardy’s reps for further comment.
Mad Max: Fury Road also starred Zoe Kravitz and Nicholas Hoult and grossed an impressive $375million (£276m) at the box office. Theron and Hardy have both spoken about their feud in the past and attributed it to the film’s gruelling schedule and a lack of trust in each other.īuchanan’s book also details Hardy’s extreme method acting, which reportedly including ‘spitting’ at Armie Hammer when they both auditioned for the part of Max. ‘What she needed was a better, perhaps more experienced partner in me, I’d like to think that now that I’m older and uglier, I could rise to that occasion.’
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