George Miller Initially Wanted Rihanna To Star In Mad Max: Fury Road

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Charlize Theron was so brilliant as the one-armed Imperator that fans of the Mad Max franchise cannot imagine anyone else as the iconic heroine. It may be surprising, then, for them to hear that director George Miller may have had someone completely different in mind for the role: Rihanna

Reporter Kyle Buchanan details Miller's two-decade-long struggle to bring Mad Max: Fury Road to the big screen. Everything from filming location issues to the behind-the-scenes tension between Tom Hardy and Theron was revealed in the tell-all. However, the most interesting revelation was that Miller and casting director Ronna Kress initially wanted Rihanna to star in the film.

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The book, titled Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road, reveals that Miller and Kress set up a private meeting in 2009 with the Barbadian singer to see what she could bring to the project. At that time, considering Rihanna for a major acting role in Mad Max: Fury Road was not too farfetched an idea since she had already appeared in other fantasy-genre films before, such as Battleship and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. She also had an air of mystery about her, which was a quality that Miller and Kress really wanted in the actors they cast for the film.

While she didn't end up landing a role as Furiosa or one of Immortan Joe's five wives, Miller and Kress both admit she left a major impression on them. They said that she looked spectacular when she walked into the meeting, which was refreshing since most actors would turn up dressed very casually. It seemed to them that she was not aware of the content of the movie, so she dressed up as herself, which they said