Charlize Theron Calls ‘Furiosa’ A ‘Beautiful’ Film

Charlize Theron has dubbed Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga a “beautiful film” and praised Anya Taylor-Joy.

The 48-year-old actress played Imperator Furiosa in 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road and she and the 28-year-old actress, who played a younger version of her character in the latest movie in George Miller’s money-spinning post-apocalyptic franchise, released earlier this year, are eager to meet up to “connect” over the role.

She told The Hollywood Reporter of the fifth installment in the series: “It’s amazing, it’s a beautiful film.”

Asked if she’s discussed it with Taylor-Joy yet, she replied: “No, we’ve really been trying to connect.”

“It’s been one of those – we can actually make a comedy out of it. We keep running into each other and in places when we don’t have time to really talk to each other, so we’re constantly like, ‘Oh my god, OK, let’s get together!’ And then life takes over. But it will happen when it’s right.”

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In May, Taylor-Joy said the pair communicated over email but are “due a very long dinner” together.

She told 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.”

On her love for Furiosa thanks to Theron’s portrayal, Taylor-Joy added: “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.”

It was Miller’s intention to do another movie with Theron but they decided not to use de-ageing techniques.

The 79-year-old filmmaker told the outlet: “Way back, my intention was, if we were to do the other film, was to do it with Charlize. But almost 10 years has gone by and then I thought, ‘Oh, we’ll try the de-ageing.’

“And then I saw de-ageing in the hands of really great filmmakers like Martin Scorsese in the Irishman and Ang Lee in Gemini Man. And what you tend to do is only see the technology — you’re not really watching performance. So there’s a risk of distracting.”

He continued: “We watch on the big screen, particularly human faces and we read all the micro things almost subliminally, all the micro movements and gestures and we feel the truth of it in ways that we can’t even analyse — and even at this point, even computers really can’t do it. So we very quickly, I steered away from that.”