Ahead of her upcoming honor at the Academy Museum Gala this fall, Charlize Theron stopped by the museum on Saturday night for a discussion about one of her biggest — and most famously fraught — projects, in Mad Max: Fury Road. The 2015 action film, set in a post-apocalyptic desert wasteland, stars Theron as warrior Imperator Furiosa, who leads the daring escape of female prisoners from a tyrannical ruler. She co-stars alongside Tom Hardy (playing former captive Max Rockatansky), and the two majorly butted heads throughout the production. The film still went on to major critical and commercial success, landing 10 Oscar nominations and six…
