Anya Taylor-Joy has revealed that Furiosa is the "dirtiest" role she has ever played in a movie.
In an interview with IndieWire, the actor explained why she was secretly reveling in her Mad Max prequel film role. "It’s the dirtiest and the bloodiest I have ever been, which is saying something, genuinely saying something," she said. "Any time I get to be dirty or bloody and not perfectly prim and pretty, I’m just having a ball, that’s where I feel most comfortable. So yeah, Furiosa was definitely right up my street."
Furiosa will serve as a prequel to 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road, with Taylor-Joy portraying a younger version of Imperator Furiosa, who was played by Charlize Theron in Fury Road. The film will be set years before the events of the 2015 film and follow a young Furiosa as she is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. Joining Taylor-Joy in the film will be Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, Nathan Jones and Angus Sampson, with the latter two set to reprise their Fury Road roles as Rictus Erectus and The Organic Mechanic, respectively.
An Origin Story Years in the Making
George Miller, who has directed every installment in the Mad Max franchise, recently explained the origins of Furiosa, revealing that he has been waiting to show audiences more of the fan-favorite character since before cameras rolled on Fury Road. "We had the screenplay virtually complete before we shot Fury Road, and we did it because it arose out of wanting to explain to everybody who Furiosa was," he said in August 2022. "The feeling was, 'Gee, this is a pretty good screenplay,' and then I kept saying to myself, 'If Fury Road works, I'd really like to tell this story.'"
Furiosa will be the fifth film in the Mad Max franchise, which began in 1979 with Mad Max. Starring Mel Gibson, the Australian dystopian action film followed the title character -- a police officer turned vigilante -- in a near-future Australia amid societal collapse. Mad Max was a massive box office success, earning $100 million globally. Mad Max was followed by three sequels: Mad Max 2 aka The Road Warrior (1981), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). Gibson starred as "Mad" Max Rockatansky in the first three films, with Tom Hardy taking over the title role in Fury Road.
Furiosa is currently scheduled to hit theaters on May 24, 2024.
Source: IndieWire