Warner Bros.(NEW YORK) — Charlize Theron plays the tough-as-nails Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road, opening Friday. Theron’s character had to be tough enough to go toe-to-toe with her co-star, Tom Hardy, who plays Max in the latest installment of the classic Mad Max sci-fi action film series. In fact, it was creator-director George Miller’s promise to Theron not to make her character a sidekick that convinced her to sign on to play the role in the first place.
“It’s somewhat repetitive, the ‘We’re going to create a female character that’s gonna stand along the man…’ and it never quite pans out that way,” Theron said on Monday’s Good Morning America. “You’re always somewhere in the back of the frame with a push-up bra, while he’s doing everything. There was something about George that I really believed and he didn’t let me down on this one.”
Theron was so committed to the role she even shaved her head.
“I was having a really hard time figuring out how to kind of melt into this world of mechanics with all these boys and not stick out like a sore thumb,” she explained. “After three years of trying to get this movie going, I just went, ‘OK. I have to shave my head.'”
Although she’s set to kick butt in the post-apocalyptic action flick, Theron said she wouldn’t mind filming another comedy soon. She co-starred in last year’s Seth MacFarlane comedy A Million Ways to Die in the West, and in the 2011 critically-acclaimed dark comedy Young Adult.
“I’m not the go-to [for funny roles],” she admitted. “Like, you know, if it’s like the kind of movie where you want to take ten Prozacs afterwards, Percocets, like, I’m your girl. I’m usually the one to go to, so it’s really nice when someone thinks of me for them.”
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