Charlize Theron improvised one of the most powerful scenes of 'Mad Max: Fury Road'
Three years ago we were able to enjoy on the big screen the fourth installment of the 'Mad Max' saga, 'Fury Road', starring Tom Hardy for the first time in the role of Max Rockatansky (who in the trilogy of the eighties had been played by Mel Gibson), and Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa, and since this April 6 we know more details of the filming of one of the most powerful scenes in the movies.
No, we are not referring to the great chase scenes that we were
able to witness while Mad Max and Furiosa joined forces to transfer a group
of pregnant women from the Citadel to the "Green Place", but the moment in
which Furiosa, after having come a long way and survived great dangers, he
learns that the Green Place no longer exists.
Director George Miller told Entertainment Weekly how the
location conditions made him think of a way to do the shot: "When you make
movies you have to surf the problems, so instead of cursing the wind, I
looked behind us and I saw how the dunes had this wind kicking up the sand.
And the sun was setting in the sky. And I thought that [Furiosa] could walk
on the dune towards the sun and have it respond however it wanted, having
lost all hope."
The actress's ability to improvise resulted in a scene in which we
can hear a piercing scream from a distance, when an exhausted Furiosa walks
towards the horizon and drops her metal arm before the eyes of Mad Max and
the rest of the women. Miller also took the opportunity to praise Theron's
performance:
"Charlize is very precise, having been a ballet dancer, she
understands space and how to move within it, and we basically saw her do
that. I thank the movie gods that all the elements were in place. We were
lucky." to have the wind, but there was no kind of luck in getting that
performance.
