![]() ![]() She really felt threatened, and that was the turning point, because then she said, 'I want someone as protection.' She then had a producer that was assigned to be with her all the time."Īt Theron's request, Miller reportedly agreed to have producer Denise Di Novi fly out to Namibia to be Theron's mediator for the rest of the shoot. It’s so loud, it’s so windy - he might’ve heard some of it, but he charged up to her up and went, 'What did you say to me?' "She jumps out of the War Rig, and she starts swearing her head off at him, saying, 'Fine the f***ing c**t a hundred thousand dollars for every minute that he’s held up this crew,' and 'How disrespectful you are!' She was right. "Tom turns up, and he walks casually across the desert," Goellnicht recalled. What happened next changed the dynamic of the production for the rest of the shoot. If the call time was in the morning, forget it - he didn’t show up."Īccording to Goellnicht, Theron waited in the War Rig for three hours in full makeup and costume, refusing to move until Hardy finally showed up. 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. "I remember vividly the day," camera operator Mark Goellnicht said. "I think that crept into the actors."Īccording to multiple people involved in production, tensions between Hardy and Theron were high from the very beginning of production, but they reached a breaking point one day when Theron arrived on set to find her habitually late co-star was once again not on time. ![]() "The story is all about self-preservation: If it’s an advantage to you to kill another character, then you should do it and you don’t think twice about it," Miller said. Nicholas Hoult, who played the War Boy Nux in the film, compared the tension between the two of them to being a kid sitting in the back seat of a car while his parents were arguing in the front seat, while Miller recalled how the subject matter of the film only further served to drive a wedge between his stars. "Charlize, her basic want is simple: I just want to f***ing kill him. Tom would want justification for every bit of choreography, not just in the actual action but in the pre-setup of the action and everything else," Richard Norton, who played The Prime Imperator, recalled. According to multiple people who were on the set, the standoff between Hardy, who played Max, and Theron, who played Furiosa, stemmed in no small part from very different approaches to their work as actors. In Blood, Sweat and Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road, writer Kyle Buchanan breaks down the entire journey of bringing the fourth Mad Max film to the screen, and in a new excerpt published by Vanity Fair, he specifically brings multiple interviews to bear on the tension between the film's stars. Now, a new behind-the-scenes book details exactly how those tensions reached their breaking point, and how both Theron and Hardy look back on things these days. The film emerged after years of development and delays, a tough shoot in the desert of Namibia, and reports of on-set fighting between its stars, Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron. George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Roadis remembered now as one of the best action movies of the 21st century, a box office hit that also won six Oscars for its filmmaking craft.
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