Given that practically any item from a movie set can be sold as memorabilia these days — I once worked with a writer who bought some of the gritty, gravel-covered rubber frogs from the rain-of-frogs scene in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, on a whim — it’s no wonder that film fans tend to have a small, enduring fascination with the items that movie stars sneak off movie sets. It can seem endearingly human for a celebrity to want a souvenir of a production — or just tellingly hilarious about what a given star values and finds cool.
Polygon recently got a chance to sit down with Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth to ask, among other things, whether they wanted to keep anything from the set of Furiosa, George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road prequel. Hemsworth says he wishes he could have kept the teddy bear his character, Dementus, keeps chained to his body throughout the movie — a small leftover detail from the anime series Miller was planning to make about Furiosa. “I didn’t. I should’ve,” he says. “The detail was pretty incredible for the art department and from George. I’m going to track that bear down. We need it to come home.”
Taylor-Joy, on the other hand, says she kept the prosthetic arm she wears in the latter half of the movie, after a particularly destructive encounter with Dementus. She adds that there were multiple versions of the prosthetic, depending on the needs of specific shots: “a soft one for certain kinds of stunts, and then you need a hard one for when you’re really looking heavy metal.” (She did not, however, say which one she wound up taking home.)
Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth on what props fhey’d like to take home from Furiosa. #furiosa #madmax #movies
Polygon also asked what Taylor-Joy and Hemsworth would bring along if they had to visit the Wasteland — the post-apocalyptic Australian setting of the Mad Max movies. Taylor-Joy says she would bring the cat she now owns after adopting in Australia, “a Wasteland kitty” who she says is
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