VANITIES

Cali CLYSM

From earthquakes ("The big one is coming") to the Kardashians ("They'll be with us forever"), BRUCE FEIRSTEIN highlights California's greatest apocalyptic threats on PAGE 58.

THIS THIS MONTH

Who SAID

It doesn't rain at all in California Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian. '

a Hugh Laurie b Kanye West c Arnold Schwarzenegger d George Washington

Answer: (a) Hugh Laurie.

COURTNEY EATON AGE: PROVENANCE: Bunbury, Western Australia, GROWING UP DOWN UNDER: The stunning Aussie, who grew up in a remote port city, recalls, "When you are younger you're like, 'Ahh, I want to get out.' But now it's really nice to go back. The beaches are amazing." TO THE MAX: Eaton credits two people for her acting debut, in this month's Mad Max: Fury Road, a reboot of the post-apocalyptic franchise, starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron: "I'm grateful to [director] George Miller for plucking me from Perth by casting me in Mad Max, and to my dad, who, when I didn't know if I wanted to audition, kind of made me do it. He was like, 'It's Mad Max—you can't say no.'" ON SET, IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE: "It was a long six months—five in Namibia, one in Cape Town. We were in the desert with no reception. It felt like the end of the world, which [in a way] worked with the film." MAD MEMENTO: Eaton, who plays "Fragile," one of five women captured by Immortan Joe for the sole purpose of breeding, really did bond with her co-star sister-wives: "We all got the same tattoo—three little dots and a triangle." NEXT ACT: Eaton, who has a plum role in 2016's Gods of Egypt, with Gerard Butler, is taking acting one step at a time. "In this industry, it's hard to look so far ahead. I don't even know what I am doing next week."

KRISTA SMITH

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