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9. Tom Hardy Couldn't Make Sense Of Mad Max: Fury Road While Filming It
It's no secret that production on Mad Max: Fury Road was an absolute nightmare - the blistering heat in the Namibian desert, amid a project that many felt director George Miller was losing control of, resulted in tensions regularly boiling over among the cast.
Stars Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron were famously at loggerheads throughout the shoot due to their differing acting styles, and at the film's Cannes Film Festival premiere, Hardy also confessed he was frustrated with Miller during filming.
Hardy felt that Miller didn't clearly communicate with him on set, leading him to believe that the production was basically a runaway train. At the festival's post-screening conference, Hardy said:
"I owe George an apology for being so myopic... The most frustrating thing for me or the hardest part [of filming] was trying to know what George wanted me to do at any given minute on a minute-by-minute basis, so I could fully [execute] his vision... But because [Miller was] orchestrating such a huge vehicle literally in so many departments, and because his signature is on every single detail [of the film] and because all of the [parts] in the vehicle are just moving, there is just motion...
I have to apologise to you because I got frustrated and there is no way that George could have explained what he conceived in the sand while we were out there [filming]. And because of the due diligence that was required to make everything safe and to make everything that was incredibly complex so simple - which is what I saw - which is a relentless barrage of complexities simplified in a fairly linear story... I knew [Miller] was brilliant, but I didn’t know how brilliant until I saw it."
Given that the tough shoot reportedly panicked Warner Bros.' brass, who deployed an executive to the set to try and keep it on track, it would've surprised few if Fury Road was indeed an ambitious mess.
But instead, it grossed $375.7 million worldwide, scored near-universal critical acclaim, and won six Oscars off ten nominations, including nods for Best Picture and Best Director.
Hardy, for his part, seemed quite happy to eat crow about this.