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Heath Ledger, pictured in 2006, was considered to replace Mel Gibson as the star of the 'Mad Max' franchise. It was a man forgiving another man for really bad behavior, and I didn't feel safe.' 'A lot of what I felt was coming my way from Doug (Mitchell, a producer) was. '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,' Theron said. She really felt threatened, and that was the turning point because then she said, 'I want someone as protection.' She then had a producer that was assigned to be with her all the time.' 'He charged up to her and said, 'What did you say to me?' ' camera operator Mark Goellnicht recalls. She proceeded to swear at Hardy, calling him 'disrespectful' and demanding he be fined 'a hundred thousand dollars for every minute that he's held up the crew.'

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Theron and their cast mates had been waiting in full hair and makeup in Furiosa's truck, the War Rig, when he walked onto set. Tensions exploded one day when Hardy showed up three hours late. It was horrible! It was not a conducive working environment. 'We were either fighting or we were icing each other – I don't know which one is worse – and (our co-stars) had to deal with it in the back. 'It was like two parents in the front of the car,' Theron said. Hardy and Theron also butted heads over their antithetical acting styles: him, experimental and wanting justification for every piece of choreography and her, straightforward and wishing to get everybody home as soon as possible. Tom Hardy, left, and Charlize Theron in a scene from 'Mad Max: Fury Road.' 'Charlize did, too, but I feel like he's the one who really took it out on George the most, and that was a bummer to see.'

He really had moments of frustration, of anger,' Kravitz said. Sometimes, they might shoot for 14 hours and only end up with 30 seconds of usable footage for the day. The cast recalls feeling extremely isolated and at times frustrated with Miller's methods: They would often shoot without scripts and only for a few seconds at a time, meaning that actors rarely got to play out a scene in full. Some of the juiciest passages of 'Blood, Sweat & Chrome' are about the movie's arduous production, which lasted for nine months in the Namibian desert and South Africa before reshoots. Here are just a few of the fascinating revelations from 'Blood, Sweat & Chrome': Tom Hardy was 'quite aggressive' toward Charlize Theron It also delves into the highly publicized clash between Hardy and Theron on set. Nux (Nicholas Hoult, left), Fragile (Courtney Eaton), Capable (Riley Keough), Furiosa (Charlize Theron) and Wag (Abbey Lee Kershaw) in Furiosa's truck, known as the War Rig.įeaturing dozens of new interviews with cast and crew, Buchanan's delightful oral history reveals the backstories of many of the film's most iconic moments, from Furiosa's scream to the guitar-playing Doof Warrior.