Cannes, France (AP) – “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” rolled in Cannes Film Festival On Wednesday, George Miller’s dystopia-on-wheels returned to the French Riviera festival and gave Anya Taylor-Joy a fairy tale moment on the Cannes red carpet.
Taylor-Joy, making her Cannes debut, brought classical movie-star glamor to one of the festival’s most anticipated premieres. Wearing a cream-colored custom Dior gown, Taylor-Joy posed playfully for photographers as she strolled through the Palais des Festivals and gave a mock salute to her director.
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The latest “Mad Max” film, starring Chris Hemsworth and Taylor-Joy as a young Furiosa, premiered in Cannes nearly nine years after “Mad Max: Fury Road” screened at the French festival. Miller, who has also served on the Cannes jury several times His “Three Thousand Years of Longing” premiered Here in 2022.
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“It’s a big deal to be showing it in that cinema with almost 2,000 people with great sound and screening. It really is a kind of optimal cinema,” Miller said before the premiere, “The moment they said, ‘Okay, we’re happy to show this film here,’ I jumped right in.”
Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival, actors Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth discussed their favorite props from the action prequel “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.” (14 May)
For Taylor-Joy, 28, “Furiosa” at Cannes was a full-circle moment. She first came to the festival in 2017 to receive the Chopard Trophy as an emerging actor. It was performed by the original Furiosa, Charlize Theron, star of “Fury Road”.
While this year’s Cannes features several major upcoming premieres, including Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” with Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness,” the debut of “Furiosa” is easily the festival’s biggest MW Hollywood. There was a program. Attendees included jury head Greta Gerwig, Eva Green, Naomi Campbell and Baz Luhrmann.
“Furiosa” opens in North American theaters on May 24.
