CANNES, France (AP) — “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” rolled into the Cannes Movie Competition on Wednesday, returning George Miller’s dystopia-on-wheels to the French Riviera pageant and lending Anya Taylor-Pleasure a fairy story second on the Cannes pink carpet.
Taylor-Pleasure, along with her first movie in Cannes, introduced classical movie-star glamour to one of the crucial anticipated premieres of the pageant. Sporting a cream-colored customized Dior robe, Taylor-Pleasure playfully posed for photographers whereas strolling into the Palais des Festivals and providing mock salutes to her director.
The most recent “Mad Max” movie, starring Chris Hemsworth and Taylor-Pleasure as a younger Furiosa, premiered in Cannes nearly precisely 9 years after “Mad Max: Fury Street” debuted on the French pageant. Miller, who has served on the Cannes jury a number of instances, additionally premiered his “Three Thousand Years of Longing” in 2022 right here.
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“To indicate it in that cinema with about 2,000 folks with impeccable sound and screening is an enormous factor. It’s type of optimum cinema, actually,” Miller mentioned prematurely of the premiere. “The second that they mentioned, ‘OK, we’re pleased to point out this movie right here,’ I jumped at it.”
Talking on the Cannes Movie Competition, actors Anya Taylor-Pleasure and Chris Hemsworth focus on their favourite props from motion prequel “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.” (Could 14)
For the 28-year-old Taylor-Pleasure, “Furiosa” in Cannes was a full circle second. The primary time she got here to the pageant was to obtain a Chopard trophy as an rising actor in 2017. It was offered by the unique Furiosa, Charlize Theron, the star of “Fury Street.”
Whereas this 12 months’s Cannes boasts many outstanding upcoming premieres, together with Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Sorts of Kindness,” with Emma Stone, the “Furiosa” debut was simply the most important megawatt Hollywood occasion of the pageant. Among the many attendees have been jury head Greta Gerwig, Eva Inexperienced, Naomi Campbell and Baz Luhrmann.
“Furiosa” opens in North American theaters on Could 24.