“Furiosa”, the prequel to George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road”, is, according to Anya Taylor-Joy, the bloodiest role of her career. And she loves it!
Filming for Furiosa, the prequel to George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, has just wrapped in Australia. The feature film focuses on the youth of Furiosa, played by Charlize Theron in 2015.
It is the actress Anya Taylor-Joy who plays the role of the heroine in this prequel. She gives the reply to Chris Hemsworth and Tom Burke.
Currently in full promotion of the thriller The Menu (in our theaters since November 23), the latter entrusted to the site IndieWire that she had a lot of fun during the filming of Furiosa which was nevertheless exhausting:
“I think I need to sit down and try to digest what’s happened over the past seven months. But I’m incredibly proud of this movie, and so proud of everyone I got to work with, and the amount of love and effort and work that went into it. I can not wait to see it.”
She adds :
It’s the dirtiest, bloodiest movie I’ve ever done, which is saying something. Whenever I get the chance to be dirty or bloody, and not just pretty and stuffy, I have fun. This is where I feel the most comfortable. So yes, Furiosa was right up my alley.
The actress, already seen in Split and its sequel Glass, The Northman, Last Night in Soho and the series Peaky Blinders and Le Jeu de la Dame, then explains that she does not have a driver’s license but nevertheless did it herself. even his car stunts. She nevertheless specifies that she did not have to drive on the highway, nor to park. Decided to pass her license, Anya Taylor-Joy is already worried about her future instructor…
“All I know how to do is crazy stunts”
“If a driving instructor gets in a car with me, he might get spooked. All I know how to do is crazy stunts. I’m planning on getting my stunt driver certificate…that way I can drive in all the movies, which would be awesome. But I’m afraid for whoever will give me the exam.“
Universal Pictures Anya Taylor-Joy in “The Witch”
In George Miller’s film, young Furiosa is snatched from Green Earth and falls into the hands of a horde of bikers led by the warlord Dementus.
Traveling through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel presided over by Immortan Joe. As the two tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive many hardships to find a way back home.
Furiosa will be released in theaters on May 22, 2024.