Apparently, during the filming of Mad Max: Fury Road, actor Tom Hardy, who portrays Max, was apparently quite frustrated with the shooting process of the film, which accumulated a staggering 450 hours of footage shot.
According to THR, Hardy turned to Miller at a Cannes press conference to state:
I have to apologize to you, because I got frustrated [during the movie’s shoot]. There was no way that George could have explained what he had conceived.
Many people are also surprised to find that Max is, in a way, not the central character of the film, although he does get a great deal of screentime. Rather, the focus is on Charlize Theron’s character and her mission to save “The Five Wives”.
Miller explains that this wasn’t always the intention, saying:
Initially, there wasn’t a feminist agenda. The thing that people were chasing was to be not an object, but the five wives. I needed a warrior. But it couldn’t be a man taking five wives from another man. That’s an entirely different story. So everything grew out of that.
You can read Trace’s review as well as my own, both of which laud the film and rate it 5 out of 5 skulls.