The 48-year-old actress Charlize Theron played Imperator Furiosa in 2015's 'Mad Max: Fury Road' and she and the 28-year-old actress, Anya Taylor-Joy, who played a younger version of her character in the latest movie in George Miller's money-spinning post-apocalyptic franchise, released earlier this year, are eager to meet up to "connect" over the role.
She told The Hollywood Reporter of the fifth instalment in the series: "It's amazing, it's a beautiful film."
Asked if she's discussed it with Anya yet, she replied: "No, we've really been trying to connect.
"It's been one of those – we can actually make a comedy out of it. We keep running into each other and in places when we don't have time to really talk to each other, so we're constantly like, 'Oh my god, OK, let's get together!' And then life takes over. But it will happen when it's right."
In May, Anya said the pair communicated over email but are "due a very long dinner" together.
She told CNN: “We have emailed a bunch. We met at the Oscars, and she’s just as lovely and gracious and cool as you could imagine.
“We are due a very long dinner, just to swap war stories. But I feel so lucky to share a character with her. She’s one of my favorite actors and I just think she’s fabulous.”
On her love for Furiosa thanks to Charlize's portrayal, Anya added: “I was lucky enough to fall in love with Furiosa through Charlize’s interpretation in ‘Fury Road.’ I thought that the character was just somebody who had really stuck with me."
It was Miller's intention to do another movie with Charlize but they decided not to use de-ageing techniques.
The 79-year-old filmmaker told the outlet: “Way back, my intention was, if we were to do the other film, was to do it with Charlize. But almost 10 years has gone by and then I thought, ‘Oh, we’ll try the de-ageing.'
“And then I saw de-ageing in the hands of really great filmmakers like Martin Scorsese in the ‘Irishman’ and Ang Lee in ‘Gemini Man.’ And what you tend to do is only see the technology — you’re not really watching performance. So there’s a risk of distracting.”
He continued: “We watch on the big screen, particularly human faces and we read all the micro things almost subliminally, all the micro movements and gestures and we feel the truth of it in ways that we can’t even analyse — and even at this point, even computers really can’t do it. So we very quickly, I steered away from that.”
Alicia Witt had a "rare out-of-body experience" while filming 'Longlegs'.
The 48-year-old actress stars as the religious mother Ruth Parker in the new horror - which is set in 1970 and tells the story of a little girl with a Polaroid camera who follows a mysterious voice behind her house - and recalled that while shooting one particular scene with co-star Maika Monroe that she ended up in "some other realm".
She told Collider: "That was one of the rare out-of-body experiences that I've had over the course of my life. I had one with Melissa McBride on 'The Walking Dead' — it happened to both of us. I had one with Michael Rapaport in 'Justified 'in the finale scene.
“We were lost to the world. I had one with Al Pacino where he had to slap me on the face during the camera rolling because I was having a panic attack
"And I had one with Maika Monroe in that moment. We were in some other realm together. I was not expecting that. It happened. The voice that came out of me wasn't mine.
“I remember looking at her from across the room as we went to our respective corners to get tidied up by the glam squad. I think it was cold out that day, so we were bundled up, and we kind of looked at each other like, ‘What was that?’”
Alicia also noted that there was another scene that she had "dreamt about" the night before she had even read the script and believes that she inspired it in part because she had shared a personal story with Oz Perkins beforehand.
She said: "One scene in particular that sticks out in my memory is the scene with Maika where she comes back to our house and she sees me there with the doll, and she's starting to piece all of this s***together, and the nightmare of that. When I take her in my arms — oh, I'm just remembering this as I’m saying this to you. I had a dream about that scene!
"In fact, I dreamed about that scene before I read the script. The script had arrived in my inbox, and I had a dream that night about that scene. I won't share the specifics because it's too personal, but I did share it with Oz when we had our Zoom because I saw that scene in my dream as it pertained to my own experience.
"I saw a scene that never happened to me in real life, but I didn't know the characters yet, so it was me. I explained to him what I'd seen and the way we ended up filming it was the way I dreamed it. It just happened that way! We didn't orchestrate it. It's how it ended up."
'Longlegs' is released through indie studio Neon and is currently having a limited run in cinemas before making its way to streaming platforms.
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