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“It was always going to be two warriors on par.”

Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron on Max and Furiosa as non-romantic kindred equals. 

FURIOSA

“Unfortunately some film-makers think you can have both. What was great about this [film] is that the luxury of a love story was not where we were, I mean they can’t even talk to each other.

“We never even talked about it - it was never there, no one said ‘maybe’, we never had to fight against it. It was always going to be two warriors on par, starting off with very little respect for each other and ending up with a massive respect for each other.”  

– Charlize Theron on Furiosa and her relationship with Max (x)

MAX

“Max is all about … a man who has got a tremendous amount of trauma and horror in his life. Who just wants to be left alone. Who gets snatched up by somebody who makes him a part of their livestock. And all he wants to do is go home. But he doesn’t have a home.

“Whatever he touches turns to death and sadness and just misery. So, in meeting the girls and meeting Furiosa, he just knows it can’t end well. Nothing is good and everything hurts out there, you know? And that’s exactly what Furiosa says, everything is painful. They’re very similar characters.

“So of course they meet, of course there’s a relationship, an unspoken understanding. A recognition. 

— Tom Hardy on Max and his relationship with Furiosa (x)