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‘Mad Max’ Director Considered De-Aging Charlize Theron for ‘Furiosa,’ but the Technology Was ‘Never Persuasive’: ‘We Had to Find Someone Younger’
'Max Max' director George Miller considered using de-aging technology so that Charlize Theron could star in prequel 'Furiosa,' but decided against it.
“Mad Max” mastermind George Miller considered using de-aging technology so that Charlize Theron could star in his “Fury Road” prequel “Furiosa,” but says “it would have been difficult” to pull off. In a Variety cover story on Taylor-Joy and “Furiosa,” which premieres on Wednesday night at Cannes Film Festival, Miller said he had observed de-aging used in movies like Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” and Ang Lee’s “Gemini Man” starring Will Smith. Luckily, Taylor-Joy — who rose to prominence as the lead in Netflix’s hit series “The Queen’s Gambit” — was up for the challenge of taking on a character already made famous by Theron.
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