Anya Taylor-Joy recently opened up about her tough experience filming *Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga*, sharing some cryptic comments that have left fans a bit unsettled.
Taylor-Joy mentioned she felt “never more alone” during the six and a half months of filming *Furiosa* in Australia. She said, “I don’t want to go too deep into it, but everything that I thought was going to be easy was hard.”
When pressed for more details, she shut down the question after a pause, saying, “Next question, sorry. Talk to me in 20 years.”
Taylor-Joy, who filmed *Furiosa* in 2022, also said she knew she’d need the two years before the movie’s release to process the experience. She admitted she can’t watch the final cut of the movie, saying, “Within the first three minutes, I’m crying. And afterward, I cannot speak. I found it very traumatizing to watch.”
Naturally, her comments have sparked a lot of speculation online, with fans and critics trying to figure out what she meant.
Much like its predecessor, *Mad Max: Fury Road*, starring Charlize Theron, *Furiosa* was both emotionally and physically challenging for Taylor-Joy. The solitary nature of her character made the on-set loneliness even more intense.
Back in 2020, Theron talked about her own experience with *Fury Road*, mentioning a mix of extreme joy and lingering trauma from the shoot. She also had some well-known issues with co-star Tom Hardy, though George Miller, who directed both films, denied any such problems on the set of *Furiosa*. Taylor-Joy stars alongside Chris Hemsworth in the film.
“This is the wasteland, and any outbreak of emotion is punished by death,” Taylor-Joy told Variety. “Any empathy is punished by death — any kindness, really. It all made sense to me. I think the restrictions placed on me by George helped create the character because she is being suppressed continuously throughout the film.”
Despite the challenges, Taylor-Joy had positive things to say about Miller. “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,” she said. “But he had a very strict idea of what Furiosa’s war face looked like, and that meant I could only use 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,” Taylor-Joy added. Interestingly, the film recently went viral when it was revealed that Taylor-Joy only had 30 lines of dialogue in its nearly two-and-a-half-hour runtime.
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