Anya Taylor-Joy, who is waiting for the highly anticipated release of her and Chris Hemsworth upcoming film Furiosa: The Mad Max Saga shared rare details about the filming.
During her conversation with the New York Times, The Queen’s Gambit leading lady spilled beans on her experience spending several months on Furiosa set, filming no dialogue action sequences.
“I’ve never been more alone than making that movie,” Taylor-Joy told the outlet.
“I don’t want to go too deep into it, but everything that I thought was going to be easy was hard,” she said of Furiosa, which is set to hit the screens on May 24, 2024.
The Menu actress admitted, “I wanted to be changed,” adding, “I wanted to be put in a situation in extremis where I would have no choice but to grow. And I got it.”
While reflecting on her and Furiosa’s director George Miller’s effort behind the action sequences in the film, she noted, “He had a very, very strict idea of what Furiosa’s war face looked like, and that only allowed me my eyes for a large portion of the movie. It was very much ‘mouth closed, no emotion, speak with your eyes.’ That’s it, that’s all you have.”
She added, “I love George and if you’re going to do something like this, you want to be in the hands of someone like George Miller.”
The Split actress also revealed she needed the two years between filming of her Furiosa and now to process the experience.
