Anya Taylor-Joy Could Surprisingly ‘Outweird George Miller’ on Furiosa Set

Who knew someone could “outweird George Miller?” Well, that’s the word from Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’s titular star, Anya Taylor-Joy. While doing press for the latest entry in the Mad Max film franchise, Taylor-Joy revealed that having grown up in a “horror movie environment” led to the thespian being “quite twisted,” at least where some of her macabre ideas are concerned. And, apparently, some of the actress’ suggestions took Miller completely by surprise on the set of Furiosa. Taylor-Joy said in an interview with BBC Radio 1:

“To be fair, though,
one of my favorite moments
on this is
— I think because I was raised in a horror movie environment —
I’m quite twisted
when it comes to different things that one can do to the other. And my favorite moments were George being like,
‘Anya, where did this idea come from?’”

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

3.5/5

A prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road, Furiosa is an action-adventure film that tells the origin story of the headstrong and fearless Furiosa. Set shortly after the beginning of the “end of the world,” Furiosa is kidnapped and brought before a powerful warlord, now forced to work for him. To find her way back home, Furiosa will adapt to the new harsh and arid world as she grows into the Furiosa she becomes known to be. 

Release Date

May 24, 2024

Runtime

2h 28m

Studio

Tagline

Remember her.

Studio(s)

Warner Bros. Pictures

Distributor(s)

Warner Bros. Pictures

Taylor-Joy, who has starred in such horror flicks as The Witch, Split and The New Mutants, continued by saying in the same sit-down:

And I was like,
‘How can you say that to me?’
[Laughter] He’s like, ‘That was very violent, Anya’ [laughing].
And I’m like, ‘George, bro!’
Listen,
if you outweird George Miller, you’re a bit like, ‘Is there something wrong with me?’”

Anya Taylor-Joy Wants to ‘Swap War Stories’ with Charlize Theron

Anya Taylor-Joy explained the lack of dialogue she had in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga during the same interview. And, as it turns out, director George Miller wanted Taylor-Joy to speak through her eyes more than anything else for the majority of the movie, which she admitted was “intimidating.” Now, Taylor-Joy not only portrays the titular Furiosa, but the character is a younger version of the one portrayed by Oscar-winner Charlize Theron in 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road. And Taylor-Joy revealed that she wants to “swap war stories” with Theron (per CNN):

“We have emailed a bunch.
We met at the Oscars, and she’s just as lovely and gracious and cool as you could imagine.
We are due a very long dinner, just to swap war stories.
But I feel so lucky to share a character with her.
She’s one of my favorite actors and I just think she’s fabulous
[…] I was lucky enough to fall in love with Furiosa through Charlize’s interpretation in Fury Road.
I thought that the character was just somebody who had really stuck with me.”

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Taylor-Joy’s big-screen battle with co-star Chris Hemswoth’s Dr. Dementus is landing with the critics, which has resulted in an 89% Tomatometer rating, at the time of this writing. However, the prequel’s audience score on Rotten Tomatoes is even better at 95%. Be sure to check out MovieWeb’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review, which calls George Miller’s highly anticipated film a “spectacular prequel.” However, only time will tell if Furiosa can rank among the best Mad Max entries of all time.