
And just tearing through the desert on that truck was really something else. I was just walking around set with my jaw open the whole time. “I was screaming my head off, ” says iOTA of the high-voltage experience of filming Max. I’m playing Zeppelin or Soundgarden or AC/DC or whatever I was feeling inspired to do.” (The music you hear in the film was added in post-production.) Speaking of AC/DC, iOTA also revealed that his character’s look was partly inspired by the metal band’s frontman, Angus Young, particularly the short pants and sneakers. Actor Nathan Jones (Troy, Mad Max: Fury Road) decided to share a transphobic propaganda image on his Facebook and the fact an actor I knew thought this was funny (on top of other transphobes chiming in their paranoid fears) is disgusting. You’re just thrashing on it, and making noise. It’s a double-neck guitar, so it’s a bass and six-string electric, but there’s a base that I’m standing on and below that is a partial amplifier, so it’s blaring, and it’s totally squealing all the time. He got the gig.Īs for the music he played during his six months on set: “I just sort of got up there and jammed,” he said. “I got in the cab and the guy gave me a funny look.” But it was worth it.

“I just wanted it so bad, so I was going to go all the way,” iOTA recounts. Paul Larsson (Blaster - body) Stephen Hayes (Blaster - face) Appearances Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome Master is the brains and Blaster is the brawn when it comes to running the massive methane power plant, Underworld, located underneath Bartertown, Master exercises his will while Blaster uses his imposing size to keep the workers in line. He went in costume as a Mad Max 2 character, wearing tethers and leather, black eye makeup, and dirt applied to his teeth. So iOTA was determined to land the role of Doof Warrior when his management agency sent him to audition for a part described as “a mix between Keith Richards and a scarecrow.” Like many Aussies of his generation, iOTA grew up with immense fondness for George Miller’s original trilogy starring Mel Gibson, having first seen Mad Max 2 (aka The Road Warrior) at age 11. Related: We Caught Up With the Feral Kid from the Original 'Mad Max’ Trilogy He is currently rehearsing the play B-Girl, which he wrote and stars in and will debut at Australia’s famed Sydney Opera House in June. He has been described as a “gender-bending glam-rock god,” has five albums under his belt, was nominated for an ARIA Music Award (think Aussie Grammys), and once beat out Hugh Jackman for Best Actor in a Musical at the Helpmann Awards (think Aussie Tonys). After the original trilogy ended with 1985's Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, the franchise went on a bit of a hiatus, with George Miller not returning to the Wasteland until 2015.The Australian musician-actor-writer (né Sean Hape) made his film debut in his countryman Baz Luhrmann’s 2013 Fitzgerald-in-3D spectacle, The Great Gatsby, playing the bit part of Trimalchio the orchestra leader.

MAD MAX ACTOR MOVIE
Director George Miller's beloved post-apocalyptic franchise started in 1979 with the original Mad Max, a small-scale movie starring a vengeful police officer living in a dystopia. The long-running Mad Max franchise has a pretty complex development history and expanded universe, so here is ever Mad Max character that is played by multiple actors. However, those that do return are often recast, with a variety of actors playing the returning characters throughout the series' run. The Mad Max movies feature plenty of deaths, meaning that despite the large cast there are actually very few returning characters in the franchise. The Mad Max franchise features several characters that have been played by multiple actors over the years.
