“Tom read with the actress Kat Dennings, and one of the things that really struck me is she was kind of anxious doing this exercise, and Tom started helping her relax, coaching her,” Miller said.
Mad Max went to Tom Hardy, and the rest, as they say, is cinema history.
Ultimately, the five Wives were played by Zoë Kravitz, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Zoë Kravitz, Abbey Lee, and Courtney Eaton.Īs for Furiosa, before Charlize Theron was locked into her scene-stealing performance, Jessica Chastain, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ruth Negga, and Gal Gadot all read for the part. “I’m not sure she was even aware of the content of the movie, so she dressed up as Rihanna, which was the right thing to do.” “Usually, actors turn up dressed very casually, but boy, Rihanna looked spectacular when she walked in,” Miller said. Margot Robbie and Jennifer Lawrence were considered, but Miller personally met with Rihanna to discuss the role. Sexton admitted he’s “kind of glad it didn’t happen” since the casting would have led to a “whole different bent” with the “feminist story behind ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ might have taken a bit of a hammering” had Eminem been cast.Īnd, another music icon was in the mix to play one of the five Wives that Furiosa escapes with. I think he had the impression that if he could do it out of his home state, then he’d be up for it.” “That’s as far as it went because we were going to shoot it in Australia at that point, and he simply didn’t want to leave home. “We did get in touch with him, though,” Miller clarified. Sexton added that he “got brought back in to redraw a bunch of storyboards in March 2007 and do a bunch of cut-and-pastes to put blond hair on Max,” for Miller to see if Eminem would look good in the part. I thought, ‘He’s got that quality.’ We’d done the first ‘Happy Feet’ with the late Brittany Murphy, and she had done ‘8 Mile,’ so I asked her what he was like and would this be something really interesting for him? She had no reservations about saying what a wonderful talent he is.” Miller explained, “He’d done ‘8 Mile,’ and I found that really interesting. “This is something I don’t hear about very much and that George never admits, but I have a very, very, very strong memory of George talking about Eminem for Max,” Sexton said. Yet lead storyboard artist Mark Sexton remembered a very different favored leading man: Eminem. Guillermo del Toro's Favorite Movies: 30 Films the Director Wants You to See Heath Ledger was also “in the picture” prior to his death in 2008.Īnya Taylor-Joy's 'Furiosa' Prequel Won't Be 'Another Chase Movie' - Expect Traditional DramaĬharlize Theron Recalls Moment She 'Didn't Feel Safe' on 'Fury Road,' Requested Female Producer on SetĤ5 Directors Pick Favorite Horror Movies: Bong Joon Ho, Tarantino, del Toro and More Production and development executive Petrina Hull also noted that fans were hoping for Sam Worthington to take over.
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