Anya Taylor-Joy went through the wringer filming ‘Furiosa’: “I’ve never been more alone than making that movie”

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1. Usually this is code for ‘I’m not fucking doing a sequel.’

2. I wasn’t really interested in this despite loving Fury Road because she just… Doesn’t give me Furiosa energy at all. Read the plot description there and it’s seriously making her backstory a “torn between two guys” schtick?

3. I thought charlize theron was furiosa?

   man i dont know shit anymore in old age 🙁

4. Anya Taylor-Joy needs to stop taking so many roles

5. I just read the Vanity Fair article about the feud between Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy and it’s interesting to hear how both Charlize and Anya said that they felt so alone on their sets. Charlize’s bad experience in Fury Road was mostly from Tom, but she said that she felt like she had no one in her corner. She wanted an experienced female producer to join the set and try to reconcile things and be in her corner, but the main producer was so territorial about the set, and maintaining certain “conditions”. It’s interesting, she was on set with all these other women   (the “wives”), who also had beef with Tom, but she still felt alone.  

   https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/02/mad-max-fury-road-tom-hardy-charlize-theron-excerpt   

   I think the remoteness of the two movie sets might have been a huge factor in their feeling isolated, but it sounds like a management issue as well. It’s easy to blame Tom for his unprofessionalism in Fury Road, but really it sounds like the producers didn’t do enough to support and maintain a professional working atmosphere. I wonder if thay continued when filming Furiosa? Like how many times can an actor be 8 hours late to set with no consequence? It’s a top down issue, and maybe certain conditions were overlooked to draw certain emotions out of their actors? Or maybe rural Australia just really sucks for filming lol

6. From the snippets I’ve seen of her acting, it looks that isolation has paid off. I know theirs plenty of doubters pertaining to her casting and cgi but I’m not too worried because it’s George Miller and the Mad Max universe. Sure the plot won’t be that compelling because we know where Furiosa’s story goes but the spectacle will be worth the price of admission and hopefully Miller will get to make more films in the Wastelands.

7. So… Lots of green screen? Sir Ian McKellen said the same thing while filming Hobbit films. Whatever studio or people promoting this movie might say, there’s heavy use of CG and Green/ Blue screen in this.