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But I walked away from George Millers latest Cannes premiere tonight still thinking about Alyla Browne.

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Even if we didnt know how her whole thing turned out, wed understand that this girl was special.

As anyone whos seenFury Roadknows, she fails.

As she stares, unblinking, her small, delicate face visibly transforms and hardens.

Where she was previously brightly rebellious and determined, she becomes blank, coiled.

She disappears entirely into herself.

She escapes Rictuss clutches, and her face morphs again into something entirely inscrutable.

Brownes Furiosa never speaks again.

Its one of the most impressive, how-did-they-do-that moments in a movie full of them.

So who is this frighteningly competent Gen-Z-Alpha cusp envoy sent to steal all of the YA jobs in Hollywood?

According to IMDb, shes a 14-year-old Australian-Estonian animal lover and roller skater with a plastic-recycling magnate father.

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