‘Furiosa’: Anya Taylor-Joy Boasts That George Miller’s ‘Mad Max’ Prequel Has A 15-Minute Action Sequence That Took 78 Days To Shoot

Anya Taylor-Joy is headlining one of the biggest films of her career. “Furiosa,” starring herself in the titular role and Chris Hemsworth as the villain, is the origin story of the beloved character first played by Charlize Theron in “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Theron sported a bald head, which became a symbol for the character, with many wondering if Taylor-Joy would follow the same path when she took up the character.Anya Taylor-Joy’s ‘Furiosa’ has a 15-minute action scene that shows her character’s growthChris Hemsworth’s suggestion to help Anya Taylor-Joy get her driver’s licenseIn an interview with Variety, Taylor-Joy discussed why she ultimaltely didn’t shave her head, even though she wanted to. She revealed that director George Miller asked her not to do it due to two reasons: for continuity purposes, since the film was being shot out of order, and because he loved Taylor-Joy’s hair.

Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth reunite to continue promoting Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga after the 2024 Met Gala.

Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth star in “Furiosa,” a post-apocalyptic film filled with car crashes and stunts. It was made in Australia, in an intense shoot where stars had to perform plenty of stunts and had to submit themselves to grueling hours of make up. In a new profile for Taylor-Joy, she and Hemsworth discussed their prep for the roles and her driving skills.

We’re just weeks away from the release of Furiosa and critics are sharing their first reactions to the highly-anticipated movie.

Anya Taylor-Joy is opening up about her latest projects, as well as her love life.

Fans of the “Dune” novel series were not shocked by much in Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation. However, even if you read the original book, you were probably shocked to see the inclusion of Anya Taylor-Joy in the film.

Anya Taylor-Joy learned on the set of George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury Road” prequel “Furiosa.” Under heavy coats of makeup, shooting in the Australian winter when daylight was scarce, Taylor-Joy wished she could have stayed in bed at least through the crack of dawn. Instead, she’d rise up in the middle of the night, ready to do battle. “I had the earliest call time of my life: 1:45 a.m.,” the 28-year-old actress says on a recent Los Angeles afternoon.

Mad Max spin-off Furiosa are coming in, and the film is receiving positive first reactions.The film, officially titled Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is set to be released on May 23. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth, the movie will serve as a prequel to 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road starring Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron and Zoë Kravitz.Some critics have already seen the highly-anticipated film, and have gone online to share their views.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and EventsMay kicked off with Variety celebrating the Power of Women New York, where Glenn Close helped honor – and have some fun on the red carpet with – Mariska Hargitay. In Sydney, Anya Taylor-Joy stunned in a gold ensemble at the “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” premiere and Austin Butler was in Beverly Hills taking part in an Emmy FYC event for “Masters of the Air.”Daniel Radcliffe celebrated his first Tony nomination for his work in “Merrily, We Roll Along” at the awards’ annual nominees press junket.

As the Cannes Film Festival fast approaches, some cinephiles anticipate who will win the 2024 edition’s Palme d’Or. Others, however, like to predict the buzziest film to hit the Cannes market, and there may be a new frontrunner there.

Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy are set to share the screen with Salma Hayek and Brendan Fraser in an exciting new movie called Sacrifice from director Romain Gavras.

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Evans, Anya Taylor-Joy, Salma Hayek, and Brendan Fraser will star in Sacrifice, a film cowritten and to be directed by Romain Gavras. Like his last film Athena that premiered last Venice and was released on Netflix, Sacrifice has a similar combustible and propulsive anarchy coursing through the film. This is closer to satire, but the script by Gavras and Will Arbery was strong enough to compel the leads to commit over the span of four days since the script was sent to talent. More actors will be set shortly, and I expect that the project — CAA Media Finance is selling the world with Rocket Science — won’t have a lot of territories left by the time buyers hit the Croisette. All the elements are there to launch Gavras as a major writer/director, here making his first English language film.  

Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth attend the Australian premiere of “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” at the State Theatre on May 2, 2024 in Sydney, Australia.

has an absolute innovation. For the Australian premiere of her new Mad Max movie, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Taylor-Joy wore a mostly sheer, gold chain-mail minidress that was covered in long, arrow-like spears, thus guaranteeing that no person could come within about a foot of the actor without risking impalement. And yes, of course she wore a spike-covered headdress to match.Under the dress, Taylor-Joy appears to be wearing only a nude thong, and she styled the outfit with a pair of high-heeled Lucite slides.

Anya Taylor Joy went all out with a work of art at the Australian premiere of her film Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga at the State Theatre on Thursday (May 2) in Sydney, Australia.

Nine years after “Mad Max: Fury Road” blazed madly on screen, reinvigorating the “Mad Max” franchise in the process, filmmaker George Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” is just a few short weeks from release. Set for a May 24 release, we’ll get word even sorry in mid-May at the Cannes Film Festival, where the film will make its world premiere.

Chris Hemsworth has opened up about his genetic predisposition for Alzheimer’s disease, and the public reaction to the news.While working on the docuseries Limitless in 2022, the Thor star took a number of genetic tests, which revealed that he is likely to be diagnosed with the disease.According to the NHS, Alzheimer’s is a progressive condition, with symptoms mainly including memory loss, confusion, disorientation, problems with speech and language, and hallucinations.The show revealed that Hemsworth carries two copies of a gene closely associated with Alzheimer’s, meaning he is eight-to-10 times more likely to suffer from the condition.The news reportedly coincided with the actor taking some time off, which led some fans to believe the two were connected. Now, in a new interview with Vanity Fair, Hemsworth has opened up about the experience.“It really kind of pissed me off because it felt like I had been vulnerable with something personal and shared this,” he said.

Anya Taylor Joy and Chris Hemsworth have arrived Down Under!

There were so many celebrities in attendance at the Tiffany & Co. event last night and we have photos of all the A-List stars.

Visionary filmmaker George Miller returns to his gasoline-fueled wasteland fantasy action universe this summer “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.” The latest installment of his post-apocalypse saga is a prequel centering on a young Furiosa (this time played by Anya Taylor-Joy instead of Charlize Theron), but it apparently almost went in a totally different direction, using a totally different medium In a new interview with Total Film (via Games Radar), producer Doug Mitchell recently revealed how the prequel came about and how it was actually ready 15 years ago story-wise, with the original intention of becoming an anime project, not the live-action thriller that arrives in May.