Charlize Theron called “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” a “beautiful film” and praised Anya Taylor-Joy.
The 48-year-old actress played Imperator Furiosa in 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road,” a role that 28-year-old Taylor-Joy plays in a younger version in the latest installment from Australian director George Miller.
Theron told the Hollywood Reporter: “It’s incredible, it’s a beautiful film.”
When asked if she had spoken to Taylor-Joy about it, she replied: “No, we really tried to get in touch.
“It was one of those things – we can actually make a comedy out of it. We keep running into each other and in places where we don’t have time to really talk to each other, so we’re constantly saying, ‘Oh my God, okay, let’s get together!’ And then life takes over. But it will happen when it’s right.”
Taylor-Joy said the couple had communicated via email but had a “very long dinner together” ahead of them.
“We’ve been emailing a lot. We met at the Oscars and she’s as nice, lovely and cool as you could imagine,” she told CNN.
“We have a very long dinner ahead of us just exchanging war stories. But I feel so lucky to share a character with her. She’s one of my favorite actresses and I think she’s just fabulous.”
Of her love for Furiosa, Taylor-Joy added: “I was lucky enough to fall in love with Furiosa through Charlize’s interpretation of her in Fury Road. I thought the character was just someone that really stuck with me.”
Miller planned to make another film with Theron, but they decided against using rejuvenation techniques.
The 79-year-old filmmaker told CNN: “It used to be my intention, if we were going to do the other movie, to do it with Charlize. But almost 10 years went by and then I thought, ‘Oh, let’s try the rejuvenation.’
“And then I saw the rejuvenation in the hands of really great filmmakers like Martin Scorsese in The Irishman and Ang Lee in Gemini Man. And you tend to just see the technology – you don’t really see the performance. So there’s a danger of distraction.”