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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Catherine Shoard

Charlize Theron ‘felt so threatened’ by Tom Hardy making Mad Max she required on-set protection

‘I didn’t feel safe’ …Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy in Mad Max: Fury Road.
‘I didn’t feel safe’ …Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy in Mad Max: Fury Road. Photograph: Jasin Boland/Warner Bros./Allstar

Further details of the animosity between Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy have been detailed in a new book about the making of George Miller’s 2015 action blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road.

The co-stars were known to have a frosty relationship through the lengthy shoot in the Namibian desert, but Kyle Buchanan’s new book Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road suggests Theron felt sufficiently threatened to require on-set protection from the “aggressive” Hardy.

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