Charlize Theron

I'm overthinking.

I'm doing it, and it passes, but I am not in that flow that you hear actors talk about or athletes, that moment where –

you're not thinking about anything.

You're just in it.

Yeah, three weeks.

That's usually, so I try to shoot stupid things for like as long as I can.

And then you just have to put your big girl panties on and do it.

Speaking of big girl panties, Mad Max Fury Road is of course one of your most well-known roles.

And it was famously grueling to film.

My colleague Kyle Buchanan wrote an oral history of the movie that brought to light, you know, how tough the set was, the filming conditions, the dynamics with your co-star Tom Hardy, the director George Miller.

But one of the things that I found most interesting was how you described your relationship with the female actors on the set, including Riley Keough and Zoe Kravitz.

You said in that

interview that they turned to you as someone who could problem solve for them.

And I'm wondering what that kind of looked like.

It was tough.

You know, it's an environment that's really hard.

It was, we were in a desert for six months and

I think mentally it really challenged all of us.

It really did.

These poor girls, they were wearing bandages and it was so cold.