Charlize Theron Says She "F*ckin' Went At It" With Tom Hardy While Shooting MAD MAX
In an interview with Esquire, Charlize Theron admits that there was some tension, & explains why. We also have some pics from her shoot..
While watching Mad Max: Fury Road, it's not hard to imagine that it was the kind of shoot that led to some difficult moments for those involved with bringing such absolute carnage to the screen. Just after the movie wrapped production, rumors began to swirl that Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron didn't get along... to put it mildly. Now that the film has been released, the stars and director have begun to open up a bit more about the situation, and Theron explains why she and Hardy clashed in an interview with Esquire.
"We [frick]in' went at it, yeah. And on other days, he and George [Miller, the director] went at it. It was the isolation, and the fact that we were stuck in a rig for the entire shoot. We shot a war movie on a moving truck—there's very little green screen. It was like a family road trip that just never went anywhere. We never got anywhere. We just drove. We drove into nothingness, and that was maddening sometimes. And it's material that's really frightening—we didn't have a script. Tom and I are actors who take our jobs seriously. Both of us want to please the directors we work with, and when you don't know if you can deliver on that, it's a frightening place to be—and for Tom more than me, because he was stepping into big shoes."
Despite their problems, Theron maintains that they still have the utmost respect for one another. "I'd rather have that honesty working with someone than someone who fake-smiles through something—especially for actors, when your job is to go for the emotional truth," she added. "When you're with somebody and you don't feel like you're in their emotional truth, then you don't trust them. I think good actors go all the way." You can read much more from Theron at the link below, and if you haven't seen Fury Road yet, do so immediately!
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