It wasn’t just their films that were making the news but also their romance. “I remember putting Brad Pitt’s face on Mel’s Road Warrior body, just to see what it would look like.”īrangelina was once one of the biggest power couples of Hollywood and had taken the industry by storm. James Nicholas, Miller’s assistant even revealed a tale from Mad Max: Fury Road’s casting decision. Those fans waiting for Furiosa, the next installment in the Mad Max universe, will be hoping for Miller and his team to bring that effort once again.Brangelina in MAD MAX: FURY ROAD? Here's a little tease from my mammoth FURY ROAD book, out 2/22, which details how the film almost came together in 2001 with some *very* different stars considered: /zpKmYHXcApīrad Pitt was being considered for the role of Tom Hardy’s character Max, and while it doesn’t mention anything about Angelina Jolie, one can assume it was for the part of Charlize Theron’s Imperator Furiosa.
However, these quotes reveal how much effort the cast and crew put into making the film, an effort that undoubtedly paid off. Of course, these quotes are all just snippets meant to tease interest for Buchanan's book, so it's hard to say how any of the cast members really felt about making Mad Max: Fury Road without more context. Once filming finished, as Theron puts it, they had survived.
All three quotes from the Mad Max stars paint a picture of an all-consuming experience during production. It seems like the filming was so involved that the cast became the characters they played. You can rest now."īoth Kravitz and Huntington-Whiteley, who played wives of the Immortan Joe in the film, described returning to normal life as bizarre while Theron describes how her " body crashed" and she became sick once she returned home. Every part of me went, Okay, you don't have to survive anymore. To even put on my own clothes and jewelry again felt bizarre."Ĭharlize Theron: "I wasn't sick one day on that movie, and then I got on the plane and by the time I landed in Los Angeles, I had bronchitis, and then it turned into pneumonia. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley: "It took me a long while to shake the experience and get back to feeling like myself. Just returning to normal life after was bizarre. Zoë Kravitz: "I don't think we realized until it was almost over how far down the rabbit hole we had all gone. The excerpts Buchanan chose are quotes from some of the cast members describing how playing their roles affected them. Buchanan posted a teaser posted on Twitter for his book, Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road, which reveals that the cast had trouble readjusting to normal life after working on the film. With such a complicated creation process, it's no wonder that Kyle Buchanan, a pop culture reporter for The New York Times, recorded the whole story in his new book. Related: Mad Max 5 With Tom Hardy Is Feeling Even Less Likely Now After its premiere, Fury Road was well received, but its box office sales couldn't recoup its massive budget. Ultimately, additional footage would be shot in 2013, then post-production would fill another year. Miller wasn't able to begin filming the third sequel until 2012 despite announcing the film in 2009, 30 years after his original Mad Max. When production could begin, it involved dangerous, expensive scenes and reports of conflicts among the cast. Many consider Mad Max: Fury Road one of the best action movies ever made.Īlthough Fury Road is an undisputed masterpiece, its production history wasn't anywhere close to perfect. Fury Road won 6 Academy Awards, and its cast of stars heard much praise for their performances, especially Tom Hardy for his role as Mad Max and Charlize Theron for hers as Furiosa. Written and directed by George Miller, the fourth installment of the Mad Max franchise premiered in 2015 to receive critical acclaim. The cast of Mad Max: Fury Road had difficulty returning to normal life after filming wrapped on the movie.
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