Tom Hardy responds to Charlize Theron’s claims she was ‘scared s***less’ by him on set

'I was in over my head in many ways'

Tom Hardy has responded to Charlize Theron's claim that she was "scared s**tless" of him on the set of 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road. According to New York Times columnist Kyle Buchanan's new book, Theron found Hardy to be "aggressive" and went so far as to have a female producer by her side at all times for "protection." [caption id="attachment_319279" align="alignnone" width="2048"] The two came to butt heads after Hardy was late to set[/caption] "In hindsight, I was in over my head in many ways. The pressure on both of us was overwhelming at times," the 44-year-old Venom star told Buchanan. He added: "What she needed was a better, perhaps more experienced partner in me. "That's something that can't be faked. I'd like to think that now that I'm older and uglier, I could rise to that occasion." Published by Vanity Fair, Buchanan's Blood, Sweat, and Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road also included quotes from those on the set of the dystopian action flick. J Houston Yang, the editor of production company Open Road Entertainment, said: "They didn't want to touch each other, they didn't want to look at each other, they wouldn't face each other if the camera wasn't actively rolling." [caption id="attachment_319278" align="alignnone" width="2048"] Theron portrayed Imperator Furiosa[/caption]

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Theron added: "I was in survival mode; I was really scared s***less." While the two actors certainly took issue with one another, it's not clear whether there's still bad blood between them. Theron did admit that the two of them "should have been better" and director George Miller believed they took on their respective characters' personas. Theron also thought the same, saying that she and Hardy were "functioning like our characters" and that "everything was about survival."

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