![]() I’d like to think that now that I’m older and uglier, I could rise to that occasion.” What she needed was a better, perhaps more experienced, partner in me. ![]() The pressure on both of us was overwhelming at times. Hardy agreed, saying, “I think in hindsight, I was in over my head in many ways. Let’s be nice to each other.’ In a weird way, we were functioning like our characters: Everything was about survival.” “That is frightening! And I think because of my own fear, we were putting up walls to protect ourselves instead of saying to each other, ‘This is scary for you, and it’s scary for me, too. “In retrospect, I didn’t have enough empathy to really, truly understand what he must have felt like to step into Mel Gibson’s shoes,” Theron told The New York Times. Both stars admitted to being an instigator in the set tension and have since made their peace. Hardy and co-star Charlize Theron made headlines last year for opening up about their rumored feuding on set. Hardy looks back fondly on “Fury Road,” but making the movie was anything but an easy experience. 'White Noise': All the Details on Noah Baumbach's Film Starring Adam Driver and Greta GerwigĬountries Like France Make Tough Final Calls Choosing Best International Feature Contenders 'The School for Good and Evil' Review: Netflix's Star-Studded 'Harry Potter' Ripoff Flunks Most of Its Courses 'Venom 3': Kelly Marcel to Direct Tom Hardy in 'Let There Be Carnage' Follow-Up still got Mad Max, but he’s split his feed between two characters, and that’s really, really cool.” ‘Furiosa.’ It was a very well implemented changing of the guard. If you look at it now, it was a changeover of hands in a way, from Mad Max to Furiosa. “It was interesting how that one unpacked. It was in the title,” Hardy said about “Fury Road,” which remains one of the most acclaimed action movies ever made. “That was ultimately Furiosa’s movie, which was fantastic. The actor praised Miller’s decision to refocus the franchise and expand it beyond the title character. During a recent interview with Esquire magazine, Hardy said he was thrilled to be part of “Fury Road” because it was a Furiosa movie anyway. The decision means fans will have to wait for Tom Hardy to reprise Max Rockatansky in a proper “Fury Road” sequel, but it sounds like Hardy is more than fine waiting. Head over to Vulture’s website to read the excerpt in its entirety.George Miller is keeping the “ Mad Max” franchise alive with his upcoming “Fury Road” prequel movie centered on Furiosa. “Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road” releases Feb. Representatives for Hardy did not immediately respond to Variety‘s request for comment. I think he had the impression that if he could do it out of his home state, then he’d be up for it.” Miller added, “We did get in touch with him, though that’s as far as it went because we were going to shoot it in Australia at that point, and he simply didn’t want to leave home. “We’d done the first ‘Happy Feet’ with the late Brittany Murphy, and she had done ‘8 Mile,’ so I asked her what he was like and would this be something really interesting for him? She had no reservations about saying what a wonderful talent he is.” ![]() ![]() “He’d done ‘8 Mile,’ and I found that really interesting - I thought, ‘He’s got that quality,'” Miller said. ![]() Perhaps the wildest casting reveal in “Blood, Sweat & Chrome” is confirmation that Miller was interested for a time in casting rapper Eminem in the lead role of Max long before Tom Hardy entered the process. You don’t know what’s going on in their inner depths, and yet they’re enormously attractive.” Miller added, “I had the same feeling about Tom that I had when Mel Gibson first walked into the room: There was a kind of edgy charm, the charisma of animals. There was this intensity that burned through the lens.” He had that kind of suppressed emotional dryness that you’d find in a post-apocalypse and, buried underneath it, disdain for the world. Audition cameraman Todd Matthew Grossman told Buchanan, “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. ![]()
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