{"id":261138,"date":"2026-09-03T00:48:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T00:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/kat-dennings-recalls-6-hour-mad-max-fury-road-audition-with-tom-hardy-reveals-sweet-story-about-what-happened-after\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T00:48:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T00:48:53","slug":"kat-dennings-recalls-6-hour-mad-max-fury-road-audition-with-tom-hardy-reveals-sweet-story-about-what-happened-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/03\/kat-dennings-recalls-6-hour-mad-max-fury-road-audition-with-tom-hardy-reveals-sweet-story-about-what-happened-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Kat Dennings Recalls 6 Hour \u2018Mad Max: Fury Road\u2019 Audition with Tom Hardy, Reveals Sweet Story About What Happened After"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption><span class=\"copyright\">Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/tags\/kat-dennings\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Kat Dennings<\/strong><\/a> is opening up about her crazy audition for <em><strong>Mad Max: Fury Road<\/strong><\/em>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 40-year-old actress, who didn&#8217;t end up getting cast in the movie, took to social media to share her story after <a href=\"\/tags\/michael-fassbender\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Michael Fassbender<\/strong><\/a> recently revealed his own audition story for the movie. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kat<\/strong> recalled doing a chemistry read with <a href=\"\/tags\/tom-hardy\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Tom Hardy<\/strong><\/a>, which kind of went off the rails with what they were asked to do by an acting coach. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/kat-audition.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"1182\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/kat-audition-788x1182.jpg\" alt=\"Kat Dennings poses at the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball tour in 2025\" class=\"wp-image-2275656\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The actress revealed the six-hour chemistry read with <strong>Tom<\/strong> had them &#8220;basically&#8221; doing an acting class, where it was &#8220;the worst day of your life.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;At one point, they had us switch roles,\u201d <strong>Kat <\/strong>shared. \u201cThey had the camera and had us like running around the corner. The worst part of it, I do believe, was when the acting coach told us to say the lines without saying the lines, encouraging us to just make noises instead of the lines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I was dying,&#8221; she added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kat<\/strong> then went on to praise Tom, who &#8220;really took to this exercise. Like, he was able to be extremely free and come up with really creative ways of doing these lines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She shared that they broke for lunch in the middle of all of that, &#8220;so that was cool,&#8221; but the best part was what happened after the audition was all over. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@katdenningsss\/video\/7680660242161618190\" data-video-id=\"7680660242161618190\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\">\n<section> <a title=\"@katdenningsss\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@katdenningsss?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noopener\">@katdenningsss<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>With a twist at the end <\/p>\n<p> <a title=\"? Quirky Suspenseful Indie-Comedy(1115050) - Kenji Ueda\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/Quirky-Suspenseful-Indie-Comedy-1115050-7021206401636632577?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noopener\">? Quirky Suspenseful Indie-Comedy(1115050) &#8211; Kenji Ueda<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kat <\/strong>says she didn&#8217;t have a car at the time to drive home, and once<strong> Tom<\/strong> found out, he offered to give her a ride and she reluctantly accepted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;He drove me home. He was so lovely,\u201d she shared. \u201cWe get to my house, which is my parents\u2019 house, because I still lived at home with my parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After introducing him to her mom, she went to take a nap in the converted garage where she lived. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;A few hours later, I go back into the main house,\u201d <strong>Kat <\/strong>added, \u201cand <strong>Tom Hardy<\/strong> is still there, having tea with my mother. And just chatting it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI will be a fan of his for life,\u201d she said. \u201cI think he\u2019s a wonderful person. And my mom still talks about him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you recall, <em>Mad Max: Fury Road<\/em> came out in 2015, during the time <strong>Kat<\/strong> was starring in <em>2 Broke Girls<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, while she didn&#8217;t get cast in <em>Mad Max<\/em>, she did reprise her role as Darcy Lewis in <em>Thor: The Dark World<\/em>, which started filming only a few months after <em>Mad Max<\/em> did!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kat<\/strong> later returned to Darcy in <em>WandaVision<\/em>, and again in <em>Thor: Love and Thunder<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/09\/02\/kat-dennings-recalls-6-hour-mad-max-fury-road-audition-with-tom-hardy-reveals-sweet-story-about-what-happened-after\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kat Dennings Recalls 6 Hour &#8216;Mad Max: Fury Road&#8217; Audition with Tom Hardy, Reveals Sweet Story About What Happened After<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Jared &#8211; Celebrity News, Entertainment News &amp; Photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/09\/02\/kat-dennings-recalls-6-hour-mad-max-fury-road-audition-with-tom-hardy-reveals-sweet-story-about-what-happened-after\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Kat Dennings is opening up about her crazy audition for Mad Max: Fury Road. The 40-year-old actress, who didn&#8217;t end up getting cast in the movie, took to social media to share her story after Michael Fassbender recently revealed his own audition story for the movie. 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