‘Mad Max’ Casting Director Crashed Her Car After Seeing Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron’s Chemistry

Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron’s onscreen chemistry sizzles in “Mad Max: Fury Road,” but what is it like to experience that chemistry in person? For “Fury Road” casting director Ronna Kress, the answer is downright overwhelming.

As part of Kyle Buchanan’s upcoming oral history book “Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road,” Kress revealed that she crashed her car after staring at the “intense” chemistry between Hardy and Theron for the first time.“The truth of it is that we didn’t end up casting Tom until we had Tom and Charlize together,” Kress said.

“At that point, [director George Miller] had gone back to Australia, and we did a video-conference call at Warner Bros.

with George so he could talk to Tom and Charlize, because it was really important for him to see them together.

Once we saw them, we just knew.

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