“If you look round Hollywood there’s no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film. Lots of people who want this part. I have a responsibility to those who didn’t make it to the pitch.” So he’s going to build settlements and obstacle courses in the outback for two months, use them to train, and then dismantle them. “Max is a loner in a desolate landscape,” he explains. “I’ve got to create the body of someone broken who survives from meal to meal. I want the muscles of a manual labourer who builds camps then disbands them.” He doesn’t know what’s going to be inside Max yet, though. He’s waiting to find that out from George Miller, because Max is George’s man. “George will be the font of my wisdom because I’m not playing someone real – it’s not Adolf Hitler or Graham Norton. I can practise being Graham Norton in my bedroom for hours; I’ve got nothing with Mad Max.”
- Tom Hardy on Hollywood and Mad Max in 2010. Is he still thinking of Max this way, I wonder? I love how he puts Graham Norton together with Hitler…
