Check Out Tom Hardy's Response To A Sexist MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Question
During the Cannes Film Festival's Mad Max: Fury Road press conference, one journalist asked Tom Hardy a rather silly question about being "outgunned by oestrogen" while shooting the film.
Because of its many strong female characters and the fact that Charlize Theron's Furiosa pretty much takes center stage from Tom Hardy's titular Road Warrior, George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road is being hailed as a "feminist blockbuster". This hasn't gone down too well with MRAs (lol), and has led to quite a few idiotic questions during the movie's press circuit. One such question was aimed at Tom Hardy earlier this month at Cannes. Skip to the 9:45 mark to hear it, and Hardy's response.
Peter Howell: I have a question for Tom Hardy. Tom, I’ll preface my remarks by saying that I have five sisters, a wife, a daughter, and a mother so I know what it’s like to be outgunned by estrogen. But I just wanted to ask you, as you were reading the script, did you ever think, “Why are all these women in here? I thought this was supposed to be a man’s movie?”
Tom Hardy: No. [audience laughs] Not for one minute.
Charlize Theron: Good for you.
Tom Hardy: That’s kind of obvious. But like, but also in reference to the concept of having a script, that would have been nice. [director George Miller pats him on the back] That was more of a concern.
Charlize Theron: That was a luxury we didn’t have.
The much-discussed lack of a script is what led to some on-set clashes between Miller and Hardy, something the latter has since apologized for. Do you view Mad Max: Fury Road as a feminist film? Or is it just a film that happens to have some strong women in it?
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