‘Mad Max’ Crew Details Explosive Charlize Theron-Tom Hardy Fight: ‘She’s Swearing Her Head Off at Him’

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Zack Sharf The “Mad Max: Fury Road” oral history book “Blood, Sweat & Chrome” is now available for purchase, and with it comes a lot of new information about the set feud between leading actors Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron.

As Theron explains in the book (via Vanity Fair), “It was like two parents in the front of the car. We were either fighting or we were icing each other—I don’t know which one is worse—and they had to deal with it in the back.

It was horrible! We should not have done that; we should have been better. I can own up to that.”Both Theron and Hardy have spoken about the feud in the past, citing the film’s grueling production schedule and an overall lack of trust in each other as inciting incidents.

But as “Blood, Sweat & Chrome” reveals, there was a specific set incident that exploded the situation and changed how the set operated moving forward. “I remember vividly the day,” camera operator Mark Goellnicht said. “The call on set was eight o’clock.