Fury ROAD RAGE: Fuming Charlize Theron called Tom Hardy a f****ng c**t on 'Mad Max' set
The cast and crew of 'Mad Max: Fury Road' opened up about the chilly relationship between Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy. In fact, their fight on the set of the movie went so far that Theron ended up calling Hardy a "f***ing c**t" after he made her wait for several hours, according to New York Times columnist Kyle Buchanan's new book titled 'Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild And True Story Of Mad Max: Fury Road'.
Vanity Fair published an excerpt in which members of the production opened up about how Theron, 46, had to ask a female producer to stick with her as "protection" against 44-year-old Hardy. Hardy starred as the title character in the series. Natascha Hopkins, a stunt double on the movie, claimed that Theron would not want to waste time on the set as she was a new mother and had parenting to do. Camera operator Mark Goellnicht recalled that Hardy was often late.
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Goellnicht recalled how Theron was on set on time one day but Hardy did not turn up when he had to although producers had made a 'special request' to him. "Gets to nine o’clock, still no Tom," Goellnicht said in the excerpt. "Charlize, do you want to get out of the War Rig and walk around, or do you want to . . .” “No, I’m going to stay here.” She was really going to make a point. She didn’t go to the bathroom, didn’t do anything. She just sat in the War Rig," the excerpt read.
Hardy appeared hours later while Theron waited inside a vehicle. "She jumps out of the War Rig, and she starts swearing her head off at him, saying, 'Fine the f**king c**t a hundred thousand dollars for every minute that he’s held up this crew' and 'How disrespectful you are!'," Goellnicht recounted. "She was right. Full rant. She screams it out. It’s so loud, it’s so windy — he might’ve heard some of it, but he charged up to her up and went, “What did you say to me?'."
Goellnicht claimed Theron felt threatened after Hardy appeared "quite aggressive". "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 said.
Theron said, "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 because I didn’t feel safe."
"I kind of put my foot down. [Director] George [Miller] then said, 'Okay, well, if Denise comes . . .' He was open to it and that kind of made me breathe a little bit because it felt like I would have another woman understanding what I was up against," the actress added.
Kelly Marcel, a screenwriter and a friend of Tom Hardy, said that the lead actors came from a "really intense, intense, intense period in an intense, intense place". Shee claimed, "Family was made there, and family loves and hates each other." She explained how Hardy was "'very physical and all over the place and would try very different things", while Theron was "cerebral and very consistent in the way that she approaches a character."
"They’re both powerhouses, but in their very different ways of working. Which, weirdly, is why the film works: It’s all pouring out on the screen," Marcel said.
Theron said, "Looking back on where we are in the world now, given what happened between me and Tom, it would have been smart for us to bring a female producer in. You understand the needs of a director who wants to protect his set, but when push comes to shove and things get out of hand, you have to be able to think about that in a bigger sense. That’s where we could have done better, if George trusted that nobody was going to come and f**k with his vision but was just going to come and help mediate situations."
However, Goellnicht noted that Hardy "was a different person by the end", and that the two lead actors warmed up to each other later during the production.