Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga director George Miller why he cast Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth as Imperator Furiosa and Warlord Dementus.
During George Miller’s mini-panel at CinemaCon 2024, the director explained what prompted him to cast both actors:
Well, they are both absolutely superb. Anya is — Edgar Wright showed me Last Night in Soho just before it was released. I saw Anya in that, and I said, “She’d be good for” — and he said, “Do it, do it.” Without me even telling him what it was, he said, “Do it. She’s great. She’s great.” There’s something about her, it’s almost difficult to put it in to words. There’s something mystical about her, and yet there’s an accessibility. I learned that she was somebody who is very, very disciplined, and she’s very young. She was a ballet dancer, Charlize was a ballet dancer. I worked on Happy Feet with a lot of brilliant dancers, and I understand the physical discipline, as well as emotional discipline they have. So, all of that led to Anya being Furiosa. In terms of Chris, I knew the character, I never thought of Chris until we met and we talked. I realized he was somebody with a lot more [ideas] than I initially thought of him…So, I thought, “Well, I can’t wait to see [what he does].” He [resonated] really well with the material, so I thought, “Let’s just see what he can do with it.”
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