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Furiosa Director George Miller Unpacks Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron’s Fury Road Feud

That was not the case with Fury Road, a film bedeviled with problems at every turn. They included a major personality clash between Tom Hardy, who played Max,

In our new cover story about the making of Furiosa, the mastermind of the Mad Max universe talks about the technological improvements that made Furiosa a pleasurable filmmaking experience — the ease of digitally removing safety harnesses allows for cooler stunts, for example. Miller pointed out that they well documented in Kyle Buchanan’s 2022 book Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road. Miller told us in our cover story that Theron and Hardy’s feud was only one of the problems with Fury Road, which was also delayed by Mel Gibson’s troubles — which ruined the chances of him starring in the film — as well as leadership changes at Warner Bros. during the process of getting the film made.

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