‘Mad Max’ Director Considered De-Aging Charlize Theron for ‘Furiosa,’ but the Technology Was ‘Never Persuasive’: ‘We Had to Find Someone Younger’

“Mad Max” mastermind George Miller considered using de-aging technology so that Charlize Theron could star in his “Fury Road” prequel “Furiosa,” but says “it would have been difficult” to pull off. Instead, he opted to cast someone new in the role of Imperator Furiosa: Anya Taylor-Joy. In a Variety cover story on Taylor-Joy and “Furiosa,” […]