Charlize Theron hails new Mad Max film as 'beautiful'

Charlize Theron has described Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga as a "beautiful film" and praised Anya Taylor-Joy.

The 48-year-old actress played Imperator Furiosa in 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road, a role which 28-year-old Taylor-Joy portrays as a younger version in the latest instalment by Australian director George Miller.

Theron told The Hollywood Reporter: "It's amazing, it's a beautiful film."

Asked if she's discussed it with Taylor-Joy, she replied: "No, we've really been trying to connect.

"It's been one of those - we can actually make a comedy out of it. We keep running into each other and in places when we don't have time to really talk to each other, so we're constantly like, 'Oh my god, OK, let's get together!' And then life takes over. But it will happen when it's right."

Taylor-Joy said the pair communicated over email but are "due a very long dinner" together.

"We have emailed a bunch. We met at the Oscars, and she's just as lovely and gracious and cool as you could imagine," she told CNN.

"We are due a very long dinner, just to swap war stories. But I feel so lucky to share a character with her. She's one of my favourite actors and I just think she's fabulous."

On her love for Furiosa, Taylor-Joy added: "I was lucky enough to fall in love with Furiosa through Charlize's interpretation in Fury Road. I thought that the character was just somebody who had really stuck with me."

It was Miller's intention to do another movie with Theron but they decided not to use de-ageing techniques.

The 79-year-old filmmaker told CNN: "Way back, my intention was, if we were to do the other film, was to do it with Charlize. But almost 10 years has gone by and then I thought, 'Oh, we'll try the de-ageing.'

"And then I saw de-ageing in the hands of really great filmmakers like Martin Scorsese in the Irishman and Ang Lee in Gemini Man. And what you tend to do is only see the technology - you're not really watching performance. So there's a risk of distracting."