Tom Hardy’s Mad Max feud with Charlize Theron as new details emerge on MobLand firing

Tom Hardy’s on-set behaviour over the years has come under intense scrunity since he was fired from MobLand, particularly his Mad Max: Fury Road feud with Charlize Theron that saw her request security when around him.

Last Friday, 22 May, it was announced that Tom Hardy had been fired from the show MobLand after the show’s second season finished production.

It was originally reported that Hardy had come into conflict with producers, including showrunner Jez Butterworth, which led to Butterworth delivering an ultimatum to the studio that they either fire Hardy or fire him.

A new report has given more details on the circumstances that led to Hardy getting sacked, stating that he ‘refused to come out of his trailer for hours at a time’ and therefore kept his co-stars Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan waiting.

This happened before with Hardy, causing a high profile and explosive feud with his co-star Charlize Theron on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road.

Hardy was regularly hours late to set on Mad Max, and it caused a heated confrontation between the two stars

Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron still promoted the film together despite their feud (Anthony Harvey/FilmMagic)

Fury Road is widely considered one of the best action films of the 21^st century but the set that created the movie is an infamous one, with a book having been written about the tumultuous experience of making the movie.

Hardy and Theron were co-stars on the film, with tensions on the set incredibly high. Nicholas Hoult, who also starred in Fury Road, stated in the book Blood, Sweat and Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road: “It was a tense atmosphere at times. It was kind of like you’re on your summer holidays and the adults in the front of the car are arguing.”

They starred as Max and Furiosa (Warner Bros)

One heated instance saw Theron waiting for Hardy on set for three hours, leading her to call him unprofessional.

Theron reportedly said to producers, within earshot of Hardy, that they should ‘fine the fucking c*nt a hundred thousand dollars for every minute that he’s held up this crew’. He then charged up to her and was described as being ‘aggressive’, which led his co-star to require personal protection for the rest of filming. A camera operator working on the film stated that she appeared ‘threatened’ and asked for protection immediately.

Hardy, Theron, and director George Miller have all spoken out about the tense film set with regret

Tom Hardy, Charlie Theron, and George Miller (Samir Hussein/WireImage)

George Miller, the legendary director behind the film and the Mad Max franchise, admitted since the film’s controversy occurred that both actors had very different processes which mirrored their characters having to find a way to co-exist.

He went on to say however: “There’s no excuse for it, and I think there’s a tendency in this business to use great performances as an excuse for other disruption that could be avoided.”

Theron called it a ‘tough shoot’, adding: “We should not have done that; we should have been better. I can own up to that.”

Hardy denied that Theron was ever ‘scared’ of him on set, saying: “Charlize is an intense woman. Very intense, actually. In a good way… She’s a very serious actor. So I don’t see why she would ever be intimidated by me or in any way feel frightened.”

He also admitted his own part in that feud however, saying: “What [Theron] 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.”