Anya Taylor-Joy has revealed she pushed George Miller to film a brutal moment in Furiosa : A Mad Max Saga that symbolized “female rage,” but the scene did not make the final cut. The actress told GQ that she created a scene in which Imperator Furiosa cuts out the tongue of Dementus (Chris Hemsworth), with the magazine describing it as Taylor-Joy’s effort to “out-crazy” Miller. The gory moment did not make Miller’s final edit, but Taylor-Joy said she had kept a prosthetic memento of Dementus’ tongue, which sits in a little plastic box in her home.
Related Stories Festivals Sean Baker Has Another Sex Worker Movie In The Works After 'Anora', Thinks Trade Should Be Decriminalized - Cannes News Mohammad Rasoulof Will Attend Cannes Screening Of 'The Seed Of The Sacred Fig' “It was really important to me that the confrontation between Furiosa and Dementus be a physical one, and that it was hard-won,” she said. “It needed it; she needed it. I think there is something in seeing this person turn to something more carnal within herself.
” Taylor-Joy added that the film had allowed her to tap into her female rage. “For a long time the only time I ever got angry was on other people’s behalfs. I’ve always internalized this thing of ‘I’ve done something wrong.
If you treat me badly, it’s because I am the problem.’ And I’m so grateful for Furiosa, because there was a real moment where I started getting angry for myself,” she said. Furiosa is eyeing an $.
