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Everything You Need to Know About Young(er) Furiosa in Furiosa
After director George Miller, teen actor Alyla Browne received the loudest applause at the movie’s Cannes premiere.
Browne’s preternaturally confident gaze — which looks uncannily, almost freakily like Taylor-Joy’s, elfin and sharp — conveys Furiosa’s feistiness precociousness and quicksilver dexterity. During one of her last sequences in the film, Browne’s Furiosa scales down a steep rock face and performs a complex, life-endangering maneuver on one of Dementus’s vehicles, her small form swinging effortlessly across the screen, her gaze still completely opaque. The Cannes Gala screening audience seemed to agree — after the film ended, the festival’s camera trained on each actor for a minute or so, as is tradition; save for Miller himself, Browne’s reception was the loudest and most enthusiastic.
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