Feminist playwright Eve Ensler, famous for writing The Vagina Monologues, was surprisingly brought in as a core consultant for the 2015 high-octane desert action film Mad Max Fury Road.

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Feminist playwright Eve Ensler, famous for writing The Vagina Monologues, was surprisingly brought in as a core consultant for the 2015 high-octane desert action film Mad Max Fury Road. Director George Miller wanted to ensure the escaped sisterhood of post-apocalyptic brides felt like authentic, traumatized survivors of abuse rather than just generic Hollywood eye candy wearing dirty rags in a monster truck. Ensler spent time on set running intense workshops with the actresses, transforming what could have been a standard, brainless car chase movie into a profound, critically acclaimed masterpiece about female bodily autonomy. It is incredibly funny to think that the greatest, most explosive heavy-metal action movie of the decade owes its emotional depth to an activist playwright teaching supermodels how to process patriarchal trauma in the Namibian desert