{"id":2125276,"date":"2026-09-02T20:30:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2125276"},"modified":"2026-09-02T20:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:30:57","slug":"kat-dennings-recalls-her-six-hour-mad-max-fury-road-audition-with-wonderful-person-tom-hardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2125276","title":{"rendered":"Kat Dennings Recalls Her Six-Hour Mad Max: Fury Road Audition With ‘Wonderful Person’ Tom Hardy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2 Broke Girls and WandaVision actress Kat Dennings took to social media to recall her experience auditioning opposite Tom Hardy for 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road<\/a>. Although Dennings at one point likens the audition to being like \u201can acting class if it was [on] the worst day of your life,\u201d her story ultimately takes a surprisingly sweet and funny turn.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Dennings explained on TikTok<\/u><\/a> how her screen test \u2013 she doesn\u2019t specify which role she was up for but presumably it was for one of Immortan Joe\u2019s Brides \u2013 took an epic six hours. It was a chemistry read between her and Hardy, who, of course, went on to win the title role of “Mad Max” Rockatansky.<\/p>\n

Dennings, who still lived at home with her parents at the time, said director George Miller didn\u2019t do much talking during the audition, with a person she believes was an acting coach leading the process instead.<\/p>\n

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@katdenningsss<\/a> <\/p>\n

With a twist at the end <\/p>\n

\u266c Quirky Suspenseful Indie-Comedy(1115050) – Kenji Ueda<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cThe dialogue was a couple of pages, and kind of vague. And basically, what happened was, an acting class, if it was, um, the worst day of your life. At one point, they had us switch roles. They had the camera and had us like running around the corner,\u201d Dennings said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe worst part of it, I do believe, was when the acting coach told us to say the lines without saying the lines, encouraging us to just make noises instead of the lines. I was dying. I mean, Tom Hardy, he really took to this exercise. Like, he was able to be extremely free and come up with very creative ways of doing these lines.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dennings said \u201cthe best part of the story\u201d is its ending and she\u2019s absolutely right. <\/p>\n

After the audition was finally over after six grueling hours, Dennings \u2013 who didn\u2019t have a car \u2013 planned to go down the corner to call for a ride, but Hardy then offered to give her a lift.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe drove me home. He was so lovely. We get to my house, which was my parents’ house, because I still lived at home with my parents. And he came inside and he met my mom, and he was like, oh, what a nice house. She was like, oh, come on in. And I was like, all right, Tom, well, this is a very special day. Uh, I hope, uh, you move further in this experience because I know that I’m not going to. I went back to the converted garage where I lived, put my pajamas on, took a nap. A few hours later, I go back into the main house, and Tom Hardy is still there. Having tea with my mother, and just chatting it up. So… I can’t say enough about Tom Hardy. I will be a fan of his for life. I think he’s a wonderful person, and my mom still talks about him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While Dennings didn\u2019t land a role in Mad Max: Fury Road, she did join the MCU as Darcy Lewis in the Thor films.<\/p>\n

Hardy, you may have heard, just dropped a rap album he collaborated on with Czarface<\/u><\/a> where, under the alias Frankie Pulitzer, he raps about everything from Willem Dafoe\u2019s Green Goblin to Kathy Bates.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n

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2 Broke Girls and WandaVision actress Kat Dennings took to social media to recall her experience auditioning opposite Tom Hardy for 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road<\/a>. Although Dennings at one point likens the audition to being like \u201can acting class if it was [on] the worst day of your life,\u201d her story ultimately takes a surprisingly sweet and funny turn.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Dennings explained on TikTok<\/u><\/a> how her screen test \u2013 she doesn\u2019t specify which role she was up for but presumably it was for one of Immortan Joe\u2019s Brides \u2013 took an epic six hours. It was a chemistry read between her and Hardy, who, of course, went on to win the title role of “Mad Max” Rockatansky.<\/p>\n

Dennings, who still lived at home with her parents at the time, said director George Miller didn\u2019t do much talking during the audition, with a person she believes was an acting coach leading the process instead.<\/p>\n

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@katdenningsss<\/a> <\/p>\n

With a twist at the end <\/p>\n

\u266c Quirky Suspenseful Indie-Comedy(1115050) – Kenji Ueda<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cThe dialogue was a couple of pages, and kind of vague. And basically, what happened was, an acting class, if it was, um, the worst day of your life. At one point, they had us switch roles. They had the camera and had us like running around the corner,\u201d Dennings said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe worst part of it, I do believe, was when the acting coach told us to say the lines without saying the lines, encouraging us to just make noises instead of the lines. I was dying. I mean, Tom Hardy, he really took to this exercise. Like, he was able to be extremely free and come up with very creative ways of doing these lines.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dennings said \u201cthe best part of the story\u201d is its ending and she\u2019s absolutely right. <\/p>\n

After the audition was finally over after six grueling hours, Dennings \u2013 who didn\u2019t have a car \u2013 planned to go down the corner to call for a ride, but Hardy then offered to give her a lift.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe drove me home. He was so lovely. We get to my house, which was my parents’ house, because I still lived at home with my parents. And he came inside and he met my mom, and he was like, oh, what a nice house. She was like, oh, come on in. And I was like, all right, Tom, well, this is a very special day. Uh, I hope, uh, you move further in this experience because I know that I’m not going to. I went back to the converted garage where I lived, put my pajamas on, took a nap. A few hours later, I go back into the main house, and Tom Hardy is still there. Having tea with my mother, and just chatting it up. So… I can’t say enough about Tom Hardy. I will be a fan of his for life. I think he’s a wonderful person, and my mom still talks about him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While Dennings didn\u2019t land a role in Mad Max: Fury Road, she did join the MCU as Darcy Lewis in the Thor films.<\/p>\n

Hardy, you may have heard, just dropped a rap album he collaborated on with Czarface<\/u><\/a> where, under the alias Frankie Pulitzer, he raps about everything from Willem Dafoe\u2019s Green Goblin to Kathy Bates.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2 Broke Girls and WandaVision actress Kat Dennings took to social media to recall her experience auditioning opposite Tom Hardy for 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road. Although Dennings at one point likens the audition to being like \u201can acting class if it was [on] the worst day of your life,\u201d her story ultimately takes a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,243],"class_list":["post-2125276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-ign-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2125276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2125276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2125276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2125276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}