Furiosa: A Mad Max Sagais ready to burst onto movie screens here in the United States in less than two weeks, and one of the highlights of the film is getting to see Imperator Furiosa’s transformationfrom a helpless child to the warrior she becomes. Playing the younger versionof Anya Taylor-Joy’s titular characteris Australian actressAlyla Browne, who is fresh off of starring in the creature feature,Sting, which was directed by fellow Aussie, Kiah Roach-Turner.
Speaking withVarietyforFurious’sworld premiere at Cannes this week, the 14-year-old Browne says the entire experience of working on George Miller’s epic saga was “absolutely insane.” Despite the insanity, though,she knows she’s extremely fortunateto have worked with an incredible cast. Check out her comments below.
“It’s absolutely insane. I’m really lucky to work with all these amazing people. But it is insane.”
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
A prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road, Furiosa is an action-adventure film that tells the origin story of the headstrong and fearless Furiosa. Set shortly after the beginning of the “end of the world,” Furiosa is kidnapped and brought before a powerful warlord, now forced to work for him. To find her way back home, Furiosa will adapt to the new harsh and arid world as she grows into the Furiosa she becomes known to be.
Alyla Browne has amassed an impressive resume in just a few short years, playing the daughter of Nicole Kidman inNine Perfect Strangers, the granddaughter of Sigourney Weaver inThe Lost Flowers of Alice Hart,a younger version of Tilda Swintonin George Miller’sThree Thousand Years of Longing, and the lead role inSting,which saw her battling a giant spideralongside Ryan Corr and Penelope Mitchell.
It was on the set ofThree Thousand Years of Longingthat Miller first took notice of the young Browne while she was doing the middle splits between takes. Browne says they were in “an old mental asylum of all places,” and that the maneuver was just a way to keep busy between takes. It was then that Miller first noticed the resemblance between the young actressand his character of Furiosa, saying, as she recalls:
“Wow, that’s strange, you remind me of a young Furiosa.”
Alyla Browne Says She’s in One of the ‘Coolest Post-apocalyptic Films in the World’
A year after her appearance inThree Thousand Years of Longing, Browne found herself once again with director George Miller, this time on a Zoom call to discussFuriosa. She says that she was offered the part fairly quickly, and that Miller probablyhad already cast her in his head before she’d officially signed on. She described the acclaimed auteur as having “a very visual brain.”
“He has a very visual brain, so he probably visualizes each actor in that character before he says they’ve been cast. In his head, they are the character.”
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Aside from Browne and Anya Taylor-Joy,Furiosa: A Mad Max Sagaalso stars Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, Nathan Jones, and Lacey Hume. The post-apocalyptic saga is something right up Browne’s alley, anddespite it being rated R, she says she’s already seen it.
“I’m in it, I’m allowed.”
“I actually love things that are post-apocalyptic, and I’m in one of the biggest, coolest post-apocalyptic films in the world… which is incredible.”
First reactions to the filmhave been incredible thus far. Moviegoers who had the privilege of an early viewing have called it everything from “a visceral triumph,” to “epic in every sense of the word.”
Audiences across the nation can add their own adjectives to the mix whenFuriosa: A Mad Max Sagahits theaters on June 09, 2025.
