Mad Max: Fury Road on monien mielestä mahtielokuva, mutta se varsinainen tuotanto ei aina ollut helppo. Ongelmia aiheutui muun muassa pääosissa nähtävien Charlize Theronin ja Tom Hardyn välisistä jännitteistä. Muun muassa tähän paneutuu uusi kirja Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road.
Kameraa käyttänyt Mark Goellnicht muisteli, ettei Tom Hardy koskaan ollut aamuisin ajoissa paikalla.
"I remember vividly the day. The call on set was eight o'clock. Charlize got there right at eight o'clock, sat in the War Rig, knowing that Tom's never going to be there at eight even though they made a special request for him to be there on time. He was notorious for never being on time in the morning. If the call time was in the morning, forget it—he didn't show up."
Kun sitten Hardy saapui, hän sai kuulla kunniansa.
"Eleven o'clock. She's now in the War Rig, sitting there with her makeup on and a full costume for three hours. Tom turns up, and he walks casually across the desert. She jumps out of the War Rig, and she starts swearing her head off at him, saying, "Fine the fucking cunt a hundred thousand dollars for every minute that he's held up this crew," and "How disrespectful you are!" She was right. Full rant. She screams it out. It's so loud, it's so windy—he might've heard some of it, but he charged up to her up and went, "What did you say to me?"
Theronin seurana kulki lopulta naistuottaja, koska Theron ei tuntenut oloaan turvalliseksi Hardyn lähellä.
"It got to a place where it was kind of out of hand, and there was a sense that maybe sending a woman producer down could maybe equalize some of it, because I didn't feel safe. I kind of put my foot down. George then said, "Okay, well, if Denise comes . . ." He was open to it and that kind of made me breathe a little bit, because it felt like I would have another woman understanding what I was up against."
Hardy sanoo, että olisi voinut käyttäytyä paremmin silloin paikan päällä.
"In hindsight, I was in over my head in many ways. The pressure on both of us was overwhelming at times. What she needed was a better, perhaps more experienced partner in me. That's something that can't be faked. I'd like to think that now that I'm older and uglier, I could rise to that occasion."
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Kiitokset, Vanity Fair