![]() “She jumps out of the war rig, and she starts swearing her head off at him, saying, ‘Fine the f–king 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. She’s now in the war rig, sitting there with her make-up on and a full costume for three hours. Three hours later, here’s how cameraman Mark Goellnicht “vividly” remembers it: “Eleven o’clock. Theron turned up to the set at 8am sharp on a day of shooting and sat inside the so-called war rig where she waited and waited. Hardy was a “larrikin”, who spent way too long in his trailer and was always late. Theron was described as being easy to deal with and would turn up on time to shoot. ![]() So they hated each other, couldn’t even look at each other. I can own up to that.” Tom Hardy as Mad Max. Theron agrees: “We were either fighting or we were icing each other … It was horrible! We should not have done that we should have been better. Which, weirdly, is why the film works: It’s all pouring out on the screen”, says screenwriter Kelly Marcel.Įnglish actor Nicholas Hoult, who played Nux in the film, describes a “tense atmosphere”, where it was “like you’re on your summer holidays and the adults in the front of the car are arguing”. ![]() He’s a method actor, “very physical and all over the place”, while Charlize is “cerebral and very consistent in the way she approaches a character … they’re both powerhouses but in their very different ways of working. In a Vanity Fair extract published on February 23, British actor Rosie Huntington-Whiteley sets the scene, saying “it was very interesting to sit in a truck for four months with Tom and Charlize, who have completely different approaches to their craft”. Tweet from So what happened on that Mad Max set? The film is expected to be the biggest ever made in Australia, creating 850 jobs and injecting at least $350 million into the economy. “If it’s an advantage to you to kill another character, then you should do it and you don’t think twice about it,” he says.įor Theron, she admits they were “functioning, in a weird way, like our characters … everything was about survival”.įrom fellow actors to assistant directors and camera crews, they all recounted how Hardy, who played warrior Max, and Theron who played the courageous one-armed Furiosa, had such different acting styles.īoth stars will not reprise their roles in the prequel Furiosa, which is set to start filming in regional New South Wales in three weeks.Īustralian actor Chris Hemsworth ( Thor, Extraction) has said he’s “damn fired up” for the job, which co-stars Anya Taylor-Joy ( The Queen’s Gambit).Īnd it’s all on home soil with a huge injection of funds from Screen NSW. Miller explains to Buchanan that the story is all about self-preservation. As director Steven Soderbergh has said, ‘I don’t understand how they’re not still shooting that film, and I don’t understand how hundreds of people aren’t dead,” it read. “Even accomplished Hollywood figures are flummoxed by the accomplishment. In 130 candid interviews from cast and crew, including director George Miller, Hardy and Theron, it’s apparent the very nature of their icy relationship in the desert heat of Namibia may have been what led to the film grossing $US375 million ($518.4 million) worldwide and scoring 10 Oscar nominations (winning six).Īvailable in paperback from March 2, the book’s synopsis says “production stalled several times, Hardy and Theron clashed repeatedly in the brutal Namib Desert, and Miller’s crew engineered death-defying action scenes that were among the most dangerous ever committed to film”.
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