Anya Taylor-Joy Opens Up about Challenges in Upcoming "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”

Anya Taylor-Joy spoke about struggling with minimal dialogue to expressing emotions, in the upcoming prequel.

Furiosa director, George Miller, revealed that Anya Taylor-Joy has around 30 lines in the upcoming Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

 

Taylor-Joy, in an interview with The New York Times, said that she would go "months”                     without speaking a single dialogue on the movie's set. 

 

“I’ve never been more alone than making that movie. I don’t want to go too deep into it, but everything that I thought was going to be easy was hard,” the Furiosa actor continued. 

 

When asked what proved more difficult than she expected on the Furiosa set, Taylor-Joy responded, “Next question, sorry. Talk to me in 20 years. Talk to me in 20 years.”

 

Taylor-Joy emphasized that Furiosa needed a moment of female rage on screen, despite Miller's intention to portray her character predominantly through internalized emotions.

 

Actor said, “I do want to 100 percent preface this by saying 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.”

 

“But 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.”

 

Speaking about the emotions that Furiosa deserved, Taylor-Joy said, “There’s one scream in that movie, and I am not joking when I tell you that I fought for that scream for three months.”