Everything You Need to Know About Young(er) Furiosa in Furiosa

Many of the Furiosa reviews coming out of the Cannes Film Festival will rightly focus on Anya Taylor-Joy’s coalfire performance, on the film’s labyrinthine action sequences, on its relentless sense of bleak hopelessness, on Chris Hemsworth’s insane fake nose. But I walked away from George Miller’s latest Cannes premiere tonight still thinking about Alyla Browne. Browne plays the extra-young Furiosa to Taylor-Joy’s normal-young Furiosa, and the first hour or so of the two-and-a-half hour film is entirely hers.