true miracles of filmmaking of the 21st century, and it’s mind boggling to imagine how George Miller pulled off such a visual feast in an era where so much blockbuster filmmaking lacks the energy that made “Fury Road” such a totemic film of this era. Director Steven Soderbergh said it best when he said, “I don’t understand how they’re not still shooting that film, and I don’t understand how hundreds of people aren’t dead.”
To make sure hundreds of people didn’t die was Miller’s biggest anxiety when making the film, but if you look behind the scenes, you’ll find that the most chaotic part of the movie wasn’t the Doofwarrior or the polecats, but the explosive on set feud between actors Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron.
Both are bonafide movie stars, and when they were set loose in the dusty Namibian desert choking on sand, their relationship quickly exploded. It’s obvious that “Fury Road” wasn’t an easy job for anyone, but in the film’s oral history book, “Blood, Sweat & Chrome,” everyone involved in making the film speaks candidly and explains exactly why the feud between Theron and Hardy blew up.
