The Dark Knight Rises), or he makes himself look ugly and weird (Bronson). I ignored rumours about odd and ungallant behaviour. I ignored his terrible movie, Venom.
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It’s tough to imagine any other actor than Tom Hardy in the title role of “Mad Max: Fury Road”, but there was some tough competition for the role.
In an oral history about the making of the film published in Vulture, casting director Ronna Kress revealed that other actors up for the part included Michael Fassbender, Jeremy Renner and Armie Hammer.As the casting process came near its end, Hardy emerged as the frontrunner alongside Renner and Hammer.
As Kress recalled, Hardy and Hammer read together as part of the audition process, but when Hardy gnashed his teeth and spat at Hammer, it was all over; Hammer told director George Miller that Hardy clearly needed to be Max more than he did.
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“Jeremy and Armie were equally wonderful, but there was something about Tom in the room where it felt like that was Max, without a doubt. He had that kind of suppressed emotional dryness that you’d find in a post-apocalypse and, buried underneath it, disdain for the world. There was this intensity that burned through the lens,” said camera operator Todd Matthew Grossman, who filmed the auditions.
“After Tom auditioned, George and I went into another room, and we had a long moment of quiet with each other. Then I said to George, “Is this the person that you can spend nine months in the desert with, telling this story? Is this the person that’s right for you?” said Kress.
“I knew he checked my background with other directors to see what it was like to work with me,” added Hardy.
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“I had the same feeling about Tom that I had when Mel Gibson first walked
The Dark Knight Rises), or he makes himself look ugly and weird (Bronson). I ignored rumours about odd and ungallant behaviour. I ignored his terrible movie, Venom.
Mad Max: Fury Road prequel film Furiosa.The Thor actor will face off against Furiosa, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, in the film due for release in 2024. The name of his character is yet to be confirmed.Speaking to journalist Kyle Buchanan in his book Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild And True Story Of Mad Max: Fury Road, producer and Fury Road first assistant director P.J.
Tom Hardy has addressed Charlize Theron’s comments about him where she said she was “scared “s***less” of him.The pair are thought to have clashed on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road, which was filmed in 2015, leading to an executive producer being brought in to mediate the conflict between the film’s two stars. In an excerpt from Kyle Buchanan’s Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road, as per Vanity Fair, the actress said of Tom: “I don’t want to make excuses for bad behaviour, but it was a tough shoot. "Now, I have a very clear perspective on what went down.
Things can get pretty scary when life imitates art!
It’s been well documented that the development and production of George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” were nearly disastrous, leading to multiple headaches and hiccups delaying the film’s start, along with ditching a proposed 4th film with Mel Gibson and instead, starting a new story with Tom Hardy mid-stream after the events of “The Road Warrior.” When cameras finally began rolling, the problems didn’t end there as Hardy, and Oscar-winner Charlize Theron ended up despising each other, which may have helped illustrate the characters’ tension in the film’s story.
fiery feud on the set of George Miller’s 2015 action flick “Mad Max: Fury Road,” fans had no idea how bad the fight actually was.An excerpt from Kyle Buchanan’s new book, “Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road,” was published by Vanity Fair on Tuesday and details the myriad ways Theron, 46, was afraid of Hardy, 44, after he showed up to set three hours late.“I don’t want to make excuses for bad behavior, but it was a tough shoot,” Theron, who portrayed Imperator Furiosa in the critically acclaimed movie, said in an excerpt from the book.“I was in survival mode; I was really scared s–tless,” the Oscar-winning actress added. “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.
Not on the same page. While reflecting on the difficult experience filming 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road, Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy got honest about the tumultuous turn that their working relationship took along the way.
The fourth entry in the “Mad Max” franchise may have been hailed as a masterpiece, but behind the scenes, things weren’t so brilliant.
Mad Max: Fury Road co-star Tom Hardy on set.The actor, who played Imperator Furiosa in George Miller’s 2015 film, described feeling “scared shitless” while filming, in an interview with Kyle Buchanan for his new book Blood, Sweat and Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road.“I don’t want to make excuses for bad behaviour, but it was a tough shoot,” Theron said, in an extract published by Vanity Fair.J Houston Yang, editor of production company Open Road Entertainment, discussed Theron and Hardy’s interactions saying: “They didn’t want to touch each other, they didn’t want to look at each other, they wouldn’t face each other if the camera wasn’t actively rolling.”“I was in survival mode; I was really scared shitless,” Theron added. “It got to a place where it was kind of out of hand.
Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy‘s clash on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road will go down as one of the most talked about feuds in Hollywood.
Tom Hardy sent Charlize Theron into a rage of fury during their filming of "Mad Max: Fury Road," according to a new oral history book centered on the movie’s production. In "Blood, Sweat & Chrome," a book that sheds light on the film that grossed nearly $375 million in worldwide box office, Theron, 46, explains the brother-sister dynamic she shared with Hardy and ultimately says the rift between the two A-list performers shouldn’t have spilled into production in the myriad of ways they allowed it to. "It was like two parents in the front of the car.
Zack Sharf The “Mad Max: Fury Road” oral history book “Blood, Sweat & Chrome” is now available for purchase, and with it comes a lot of new information about the set feud between leading actors Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron. As Theron explains in the book (via Vanity Fair), “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.
“Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’” by Kyle Buchanan (William Morrow):Leo Tolstoy’s adage that “each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” is inverted in the making-of film book genre: They are all unhappy in the same way. Each features a suffering auteur beset by money men, clashing actors, blown schedules and more, all while threatened with professional extinction.Fortunately, Kyle Buchanan’s oral history “Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’” pulls away from clichés by tossing the keys to the filmmakers themselves.