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Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller has addressed the notorious on-set feud that developed between the film’s leads, Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy.
Ahead of the premiere of the forthcoming prequel film, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Miller told The Telegraph: “Tom has a damage to him but also a brilliance that comes with it, and whatever was going on with him at the time, he had to be coaxed out of his trailer.
“Whereas Charlize was incredibly disciplined – a dancer by training, which told in the precision of her performance – and always the first one on set.”
Miller, who is returning to direct the prequel to the 2015 film, chalked the dispute up to the actors being “two very different performers”.
“I’m an optimist, so I saw their behaviour as mirroring their characters, where they had to learn to co-operate in order to ensure mutual survival,” Miller added. “There’s no excuse for it, and I think there’s a tendency in…
