Anya Taylor-Joy and Charlize Theron have yet to finalize their calendars so they can discuss the Mad Max sequel.
The Atomic Blonde actress, 48, stated in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that she and Taylor-Joy had been meaning to talk about their experiences filming Mad Max: Fury Road and the newly released Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, but they can’t manage to get together at the proper moment.
“We’ve been making an honest effort to connect,” Theron revealed. “It’s been one of those — we could create a comedy out of it. We keep bumping into each other in areas where we don’t have time to actually communicate, so we’re always like, ‘Oh my gosh, OK, let’s get together!’ “Then life takes over.”
“But it will happen when the time is right,” she said.
The Academy Award winner went on to say that she had seen the Mad Max prequel—in which Taylor-Joy plays a teenage Furiosa—and that it is “amazing” and a “beautiful film.”
Before the May premiere of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, The Queen’s Gambit actress announced that she had acquired Theron’s permission to portray Furiosa.
“She’s been so classy and kind in letting me go do it,” Taylor-Joy told Empire in March 2023. “But I feel really fortunate because I knew this guy from the moment I read the screenplay. I felt strongly protective of Furiosa and her interests.
Filmmaker George Miller, who founded the series, recently told Empire that Theron inspired him to write a Mad Max film about Furiosa’s past. “She said, ‘Please, George, can we make this first?,'” he remembered of her first response to reading Furiosa’s screenplay while preparing to portray the role in the 2015 picture.
Despite not having the chance to portray Furiosa in the prequel, the actress expressed her support for Taylor-Joy in a December 2022 interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
“Listen, I’m not complaining about a Mad Max prequel. One of the greatest f—— actresses is taking up something I just imagined,” she added, adding, “It’s always tough,” when asked whether Taylor-Joy had approached her about playing the same character.
“Who wants to pick up the phone and say, like, ‘Hey, we’re going to go do this without you,'” she said to reporters at the time. “Nobody wants to do it. So, I absolutely get it. And I adore George. I know I will speak to him again. “I think it was just too hard.”
