Anya Taylor-Joy explains the toughest stunt she did in Furiosa

Since almost any item from a movie set could be sold as memorabilia nowadays – I once worked with a writer who bought some of the gritty, gravel-covered rubber frogs from the frog rain scene in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, on a whim — it’s no wonder that movie fans have a small, enduring fascination with the items that movie stars sneak off movie sets with. It can seem endearingly human when a celebrity wants a souvenir from a production – or just tellingly hilarious about what a certain star appreciates and thinks is cool.

Polygon recently had the chance to sit down with Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth to ask, among other things, if there was anything they wanted to keep from the set FuriosaGeorge Millers Mad Max: Fury Road precursor. Hemsworth says he wishes he could have kept the teddy bear that keeps his character, Dementus, chained to his body throughout the film – a small leftover detail from the anime series Miller wanted to make about Furiosa. ‘I didn’t. I should have done that,” he says. “The detail was pretty incredible for the art department and for George. I’m going to track down that bear. We need it to get home.”

Taylor-Joy, on the other hand, says she kept the prosthetic arm she wears in the second half of the film, after a particularly destructive encounter with Dementus. She adds that there were multiple versions of the prosthetic depending on the needs of specific shoots: “a soft version for certain types of stunts, and then you need a hard version for when you’re really looking for heavy metal.” (She didn’t say which one she ended up taking home, though.)

Polygon also asked what Taylor-Joy and Hemsworth would take with them if they had to visit the Wasteland – the post-apocalyptic Australian setting from the Mad Max films. Taylor-Joy says she would bring the cat she now owns after being adopted in Australia, “a Wasteland cat” who she says is “well trained” so he could be on set during the shoot.

Hemsworth, on the other hand, suggests that he would simply take as many solar panels as possible, to circumvent the Mad Max series’ obsession with and wars over fuel (“guzzolene” in the series’ mythos). “I would just say: The war is not necessary!he says. “I think the next movie will be full of solar energy.”

On a more serious note, Hemsworth and Taylor-Joy discussed the action scenes they found most memorable to film. Hemsworth says he was never really at the center of the kind of stunts Taylor-Joy was involved in.

“My character was kind of emperor-like, kind of in the back, pointing his finger and forcing everyone else to do battle,” he says. “I had a few driving scenes, which were a lot of fun.”

Taylor-Joy, on the other hand, calls back to the long sequence where Furiosa hides on the undercarriage of the gigantic combat vehicle, the War Rig, and ends up in the middle of a massive chase and battle sequence. “That whole sequence, we filmed it for 78 days,” she says. “It was the first thing I photographed. It was the last thing I shot. The group of people who made that possible – there was definitely a moment, like maybe day 50, where you thought: What about me still on this rig? But it was so cool to see it come together. And the fact that it has such an important storyline: you see her in her new form, how quickly she acquires skills. That was very satisfying.”

Furiosa is in theaters now.