The tension between the leading actors forced the "Fury Road" stunt team apart.

Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy talked in May for the first time in detail about their feud on the set of `Mad Max: Fury Road,` and now stunt performer Dayna Grant is opening up to Metro about the `intense` and `challenging` atmosphere that was created on set by the clash between the two lead actors. Grant served as Theron's stunt double for Furiosa. The stunt performer said the Theron-Hardy feud was apparent from the earliest stages of production and forced a separation in how the action scenes were choreographed in pre-production and filmed during production.

`We knew right from the get go,` Grant said. `We knew from the beginning that it was happening when we were doing the fight choreography...there was tension then. So we were told what was going on. And we were just told to try and make it work as much as possible, which was challenging, because usually you're all in one big group and working together whereas we were kind of separated.`

`I think in hindsight, I was in over my head in many ways,` Hardy told The Times. `The pressure on both of us was overwhelming at times. What she needed was a better, perhaps more experienced, partner in me. That's something that can't be faked. I'd like to think that now that I'm older and uglier, I could rise to that occasion.`

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Theron and Hardy appear to have made amends, which is good news for `Mad Max` fans as `Fury Road` remains for many cinephiles one of the greatest action films ever made. Miller is currently developing a `Fury Road` spinoff centered around the Furiosa character, but Theron will not be returning to the role as the project is a prequel.