Mad Max: Charlize Theron says she ‘should have trusted’ Fury Road director more on troubled set

Director George Miller earned an Oscar nod for the 2015 thriller

Charlize Theron has reflected on the on-set tensions during the filming of Mad Max: Fury Road, saying she wished she had put more trust in director George Miller.

The 2015 post-apocalyptic drama starred Theron and Tom Hardy, and earned Miller an Oscar nomination for Best Director.

Speaking to the New York Times for a retrospective feature, outtakes of which were posted on Twitter by journalist Kyle Buchanan, Theron said: “We didn’t have a script, let’s start with that. We had pictures.

“As an actor, it was so nerve-wracking and every time I sat down with him, I would ask him, ‘Ok, but what happens here?’ He’s the loveliest man, and he would go on these tangents explaining things to me that aren’t even a part of the movie, since he’s sat for 30 years thinking about this.

“And at the end of it, I would come out of those meetings like, ‘I still don’t know what happens.’ Looking back at it, I should have trusted him a little bit more and I think it would have made the shoot easier. It’s not easy for him to fully lay out what you want to know.”

Hardy and Theron opened up about their infamous feud on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road in the same retrospective.

“I think in hindsight,” said Hardy, “I was in over my head in many ways. The pressure on both of us was overwhelming at times.”

The next Mad Max film will be a prequel focusing on Theron’s character, Furiosa, but it will star a different actor in the role.