Anya Taylor-Joy fought George Miller on Furiosa's ending and won

But the movie would also be changed by Taylor-Joy’s input, insisting throughout the entire six month shoot that Miller should change his originally planned ending. “It’s a very difficult conversation to have,” Taylor-Joy says, somewhat cryptically. “If I were to be completely honest about my experience, it would hurt nobody but myself.” What she will say is this: “I just advocated and advocated and advocated for her to live up to her name. That was my mountain on that movie, and I got it, but it was hard, hard won.” 

Both versions of Furiosa‘s ending sound pretty bleak, though Taylor-Joy’s is certainly more twisted. THR‘s article doesn’t go into too much detail about what Miller’s original ending was going to be, but it was Taylor-Joy who didn’t want Chris Hemsworth’s Dementus to get a clean, easy death. In the ending that made it to the screen, Furiosa plants a peach pit in Dementus, which grows into a tree over the course of years. Furiosa picks the fruit and feeds it to the other women. 

At the same time, Taylor-Joy was repeatedly calling her agents, trying to get her part in Dune: Part Two. After Furiosa wrapped, Taylor-Joy took several flights to Namibia to shoot for a single day to be in Denis Villeneuve’s movie. She’s a lot less measured about her thoughts about him; she calls the Dune shoot “probably my favorite filmmaking experience, ever.”