Charlize Theron demanded protection from Tom Hardy on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road after they had a fierce row over him turning up hours late for filmed, it has been claimed

Charlize Theron has claimed she and Tom Hardy had a frosty relationship on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road which saw them screaming at each other in front of cast and crew and made he feel unsafe.

A new book Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild And True Story Of Mad Max: Fury Road by New York Times columnist Kyle Buchanan claims Theron branded Hardy a ‘f**king c***’ after he turned up on set hours late.

Theron, who played villain Imperator Furiosa, claims she had a female producer to be with her at all times as “protection” against Hardy, 44, who played the lead character in the 2015 blockbuster.

Natascha Hopkins, a stunt double on Fury Road, told in the book how Theron didn’t want to waste time on set because she was a new mother at the time and was balancing her role with parenting.

Charlize Theron has claimed she and Tom Hardy had a frosty relationship on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road (Image: Warner Brothers)

Cameraman Mark Goellnicht claimed Hardy was often late for the start of shooting.

He said Theron, 46, arrived on set at 8pm and had her makeup and costume done, before getting into the film’s War Rig.

He claimed producers made a “special request” for Hardy to show up for filming in time but he often turned up hours late.

“Gets to nine o’clock, still no Tom,” Goellnicht said.

‘“Charlize, do you want to get out of the War Rig and walk around, or do you want to . . .”, ‘No, I’m going to stay here’.

Theron branded Hardy a ‘f**king c***’ after he turned up on set hours late (Image: PH)
“She was really going to make a point. She didn’t go to the bathroom, didn’t do anything. She just sat in the War Rig.”

He claimed Hardy finally arrived after 11am and Theron had remained in the vehicle up until that point.

He said: “She jumps out of the War Rig and she starts swearing her head off at him, saying, “Fine the f**king c*** a hundred thousand dollars for every minute that he’s held up this crew,” and ‘How disrespectful you are!’

“She was right. Full rant. She screams it out. It’s so loud, it’s so windy — he might’ve heard some of it, but he charged up to her up and went, “What did you say to me?”’

Theron starred as Imperator Furiosa, a lieutenant to the villain Immortan Joe (Image: Warner Brothers)
He added Hardy seemed ‘”quite aggressive,'” and that his costar “really felt threatened”.

””That was the turning point, because then she said, ‘ I want someone as protection’.

After the row Theron explained she had a female producer assigned to be with her all the time.

“It got to a place where it was kind of out of hand, and there was a sense that maybe sending a woman producer down could maybe equalize some of it, because I didn’t feel safe,” Theron explained.

Theron explained she had a female producer assigned to be with her all the time (Image: 2020 FilmMagic)
“I kind of put my foot down. [Director] George [Miller] then said, ‘Okay, well, if Denise comes . . .’

“He was open to it and that kind of made me breathe a little bit, because it felt like I would have another woman understanding what I was up against.”

Theron said she “still felt pretty naked and alone” on set as the producer Denise Di Novi wasn’t allowed on set on the orders of producer Doug Mitchell.

Kelly Marcel, a screenwriter and a friend of Hardy, called Mitchell a ‘”bulldog”.

Cameraman Mark Goellnicht claimed Hardy was often late for the start of shooting (Image: WireImage)
She said: “He’s going to protect George no matter what, at all costs. And you can send your producer, you can do whatever you want, but if you’ve got Doug standing there, there’s absolutely no point unless he wants you there.”

“He was never going to allow anybody to interrupt this world, no matter how fraught the world was.”

Marcel claimed the row between Charlize and the lead actors came from a ‘”really intense, intense, intense period in an intense, intense place.”

She said “family was made there, and family loves and hates each other”.

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She added Hardy was “very physical and all over the place and would try very different things,” – while Theron was “cerebral and very consistent in the way that she approaches a character”.

“‘They’re both powerhouses, but in their very different ways of working. Which, weirdly, is why the film works: It’s all pouring out on the screen.”