Anya Taylor-Joy has been cast as Furiosa in the upcoming Mad Max prequel movie, and now director George Miller has spoken about how it all came together, including her audition.
Miller told Empire that he knew about Taylor-Joy before casting her, but he had never seen her in a movie until he saw her in Edgar Wright’s upcoming movie Last Night in Soho. “I remember thinking, ‘Gee, she’s interesting,” Miller said.
Miller and Wright conducted the interview together, and Miller said he recalls saying to Wright, “I’m looking for someone to cast as Furiosa,’ and I barely got the sentence out before you said, ‘Don’t go any further, she’s great, she’s gonna be huge. She’s fantastic to work with.'”
For Taylor-Joy’s audition for Furiosa, Miller asked her to read something to camera, and this was the “mad as hell” speech from 1976’s Network.
“Apart from the brilliance of the writing, it’s a piece that can be done to camera. It doesn’t need an acting partner,” Miller sai…
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