When director George Miller returned to his dystopian "Mad Max" franchise after 30 years for "Fury Road," he wanted to find a visceral way to immerse the audience in his surreal, saturated post-apocalyptic world. The 70-year-old director also wanted to put a powerful woman on the Mad Max map, with Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa. Theron, who shaved her hair off to play the warrior said, "I don't think a lot of filmmakers really truly have an interest to want to understand what women represent not only in the post apocalyptic world, but the world today."??