Charlize Theron & Tom Hardy’s Nasty On-Set Feud Detailed In ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Book: ‘It Was Horrible’
23.02.2022 - 16:35
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The fourth entry in the “Mad Max” franchise may have been hailed as a masterpiece, but behind the scenes, things weren’t so brilliant.
In the new book Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road, Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy open up about their difficult working relationship on the 2015 film.
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“It was like two parents in the front of the car. We were either fighting or we were icing each other — I don’t know which one is worse — and they had to deal with it in the back. It was horrible! We should not have done that; we should have been better. I can own up to that,” Theron recalls in the book, according to an excerpt published in Vanity Fair.
Actor Nicholas Hoult described the situation similarly: “It was a tense atmosphere at times. It was kind of like you’re on your summer holidays and the adults in the front of the car are arguing.”
Theron adds, “Because of my own fear, we were putting up walls to protect ourselves instead of saying to each other, ‘F**k, this is scary for you and it’s scary for me, too. Let’s be nice to each other.’ We were functioning, in a weird way, like our characters: Everything was about survival.”
One particular incident involved Hardy arriving late to set, as he had often done, despite a specific request that day to arrive at 8 a.m..
The actor finally arrived several hours late, at which point Theron was irate.
“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!'” camera operator Mark