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Kyle Buchanan
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My book "Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild & True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road" has been out for a month! Let's celebrate that with some never-before-seen casting photos. Here's Gal Gadot from her London audition to play Furiosa. (And she almost got the role.)
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Kyle Buchanan
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Here is Charlize and Tom's very first casting meeting. They had a Skype call with George Miller that day so he could get a sense of their screen chemistry.
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Kyle Buchanan
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Nicholas Hoult was just 19 when he auditioned for FURY ROAD. George Miller was reluctant to even see him for the role of Nux because Hoult is 6 inches taller than Tom Hardy. But casting director Ronna Kress kept pushing for it. (He'd be 25 by the time the film came out.)
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James Knupp
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I absolutely devoured your book, loved it deeply. Literally day I finished reading it I rewatched Fury Road for like the 100th time and appreciated it all that much more.
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