“I just keep on coming back, like a Terminator.”Īustralian actor Nathan Jones as Rictus Erectus.
“It’s fun playing the bad guys, I got to really work with him - it’s not like a lot of movies where there might only be five minutes or thirty seconds before I die. “I like to think he’s a very virile guy - he is Erectus,” laughs Jones at the on-the-nose naming and costuming of the character. “It was like Christmas, squared,” he says of the opportunity to return, preferring to call Immortan Joe a “renaissance man” rather than a foe.Īlong for the ride was Nathan Jones, playing Joe’s Lord Humongous-style muscle man son who - besides his biceps - wields a deadly flamethrower. Hugh Keays-Byrne had his own shoes to fill - literally - with the 67-year-old returning to play Fury Road’s baddie Immortan Joe … some 36-years after he played the central villain Toecutter in the first Mad Max.
Yet the most interesting characters in Mad Max movies usually aren’t the heroes: it’s the oddball wacky Rogues Gallery of villains. “George (Miller) has always been in to having strong women in his films and it’s so refreshing to have someone who wants to portray them that way instead of damsels in distress,” she says.Īctor and disability advocate Quentin Kenihan. Playing another female “bad-ass” in the character of Valkyrie, Gale says it was “such a thrill and honour” to be part of the film. Theron and Hardy aren’t the only new faces, with model and actress Megan Gale getting a chance to team up with Miller again after being cast as Wonder Woman in his ill-fated Justice League project. In an interview with Time, Ensler went as far to call it a “feminist action movie”. Unlike the previous films, women are represented as equally as the men with Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler even being recruited by Miller as a consultant on the film. Max being a role with minimal dialogue, maximum grunts and plenty of action, it’s Charlize Theron’s Imperator Furiosa with her bionic arm and penchant for female-powered justice that has emerged as the fan favourite. (Jasin Boland/Warner Bros Pictures via AP) “I love deserts and it was the perfect backdrop for the film - weather, dust, heat, pain - you can’t have Lawrence Of Arabia without Arabia.” “It would have been a slightly different Apocalypse.”Ĭolin Gibson, who worked on Thunderdome briefly in 1985 before leaving due to birth of his first son, said he thrived in the harsh climate of Namibia, Africa, which became the new HQ for Mad Max: Fury Road. “You couldn’t swing a camera without seeing pelicans dancing and camels making love by the waterside so we were forced back to Africa. “The next time around we were going to be shooting in Broken Hill (where the original films were shot) and then the heavens opened, Lake Eyre filled and all the pretty flowers grew up,” he says. Production was set to get underway in 2003, but geopolitical problems and then Mel Gibson’s tumultuous private life left the crew “running back to Australia” as Fury Road’s production designer Colin Gibson puts it. With the Braveheart star attached, Miller and his team headed to Africa to begin scouting locations shortly before the 2000 Olympics. The screenplay originally began as nothing more than a 300 page comic with minimal dialogue, which was enough to get Mel Gibson interested in going a fourth round. Mel Gibson and Tina Turner in poster of 1985 film "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome".
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