MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Director George Miller Remembers Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy Conflict

This is not a secret Tom Hardy AND Charlize Theron he didn’t get along during filming Mad Max: Road Fury. The two had major problems with each other and spoke openly about their conflict several years ago.

Now, director George Miller he’s talking about the feud between the stars during the film’s production, which stemmed from Hardy being a difficult actor to work with.

During an interview with The Telegraph, Miller recalled: “They were just two very different artists. Tom has damage but also a brilliance that comes with it, and whatever was happening to him at the time, he had to be coaxed out of his trailer.

He added: “While Charlize was incredibly disciplined – a trained dancer, which was reflected in the precision of her performance – and always the first on set.”

Miller pointed out that things on set gradually improved as time went on, saying, “I’m an optimist, so I saw their behavior as a mirror of their characters, where they had to learn to cooperate to ensure each other’s survival. “

But he said: “There is no excuse for that, and I think there is a tendency in this industry to use great performance as an excuse for other inconveniences that could be avoided.”

Before Miller started shooting Furioushe spoke to his stars Anya Taylor-Gioia AND Chris Hemsworth to ensure regular production.

He explained: “You have to be obsessive about safety: physical safety, as the filming progresses and fatigue starts to set in, but also psychological safety. It’s not like the old days.”

There is a story that has been told by Way of FuryThe camera operator Mark Goellnicht of a day she remembers “vividly,” when Hardy’s reluctance to show up for work on time set Theron off.

Goellnicht said: “The set call was at eight. Charlize arrived just at eight, she sat in the War Rig, knowing that Tom would never arrive at eight, even though they had made a special request for him to be there on time. He was known for never being on time in the morning. If the time of the call was in the morning, forget it: he didn’t show up.”

First assistant cameraman Ricky Schamburg he went on to say that he wasn’t sure about Hardy’s deliberate decision to arrive late to the set, “but it seemed deliberately provocative. If you ask me, he kind of knew that Charlize was really pissing off, because she’s professional and shows up very early.

Hardy was three hours late to set that day, while Theron waited in the War Rig in full costume and makeup.

When Hardy finally showed up, Goellnicht explained, “He jumps out of the War Rig and starts swearing at him, saying, ‘Good that fucking king a hundred thousand dollars for every minute he spent.’ on this team” and “How disrespectful of you!” She was right. Complete outburst. He yells it. It’s so loud, it’s so windy: he might have heard some of it, but he came up to her and said, “What did you said?”

Goellnicht added: “He was quite aggressive. She felt really threatened and that was the turning point.” After the fight ended, Theron asked producer Denise Di Novi to come to the film set to follow her up and make sure there would be no further conflict.

Theron said of the experience: “It got to a point where the situation had gotten out of hand, and there was a sense that maybe sending down a female producer might even it up some of the way, because I didn’t feel safe.” .

“I kind of put my foot down. George then said, “Okay, well, if Denise comes…” He was open and that made me breathe a little, because I felt like I would have another woman who understood what I was dealing with.

Hardy had this to say about the fight: “In hindsight, in a lot of ways I was in over my head. The pressure on both of them was overwhelming at times. What he needed was a better, perhaps more experienced partner in me… I like to think that now that I’m older and uglier, I might rise to that occasion.

In the end, they made a great movie, but it sucks that Hardy put the production through hell with his behavior.