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Tom on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road. Looking HOT

Greg Van Borssum, the Second Unit Director of Mad Max: Fury Road (also weapons adviser, weapons consultant, fight choreographer & stunt performer,) Gets Tom Hardy in a Playful Choke Hold!

Ha! :)

Tom came to the table with a ton of ideas all based on where he wanted to take the character. We spent so much time sitting around talking about character and movement - it was fantastic. Tom didn’t like to rehearse the shorter sequences much and it proved to be a Godsend. It meant he was actually playing catch-up in the fights, as would really happen. It gave me what I always wanted for the fight scenes in this film, which was to have the choreography hidden inside what looked like a real fight and not let you see the beats. Tom is brilliant to work with; he is versatile, knowledgeable and an all-round good bloke Richard [Norton] and I had so much fun working with him and we all became great friends who will keep in touch. Tom wanted to push Max in what I feel was the right direction, so it made my life easier.

- Stuntman Greg Van Borssum on working and training with Tom Hardy on Mad Max: Fury Road. From Blitz Martial Arts Magazine, April -13.

Photo shows Tom with Greg on the set of Mad Max. 

Spending the past five months in Namibia helped keep Hoult away from prying paparazzi lenses too. Instead, it left him at close quarters with the uncompromising Tom Hardy, who is set to play Mad Max, the role made famous by Mel Gibson. “He’s always thinking laterally about what he says. He never takes the direct route,” says Hoult. Is he the same? “No, I’m very simple, straightforward and down-the-line. I’d like to be more like Tom. But he’s obviously a bit older than me and has experienced a lot more.”

- Nicholas Hoult, again, about working with Tom Hardy. Maybe it’s his way of saying that he thinks Tom’s quite difficult to understand… *g*

(Random photo of Tom thinking laterally. Perhaps.)

(Source: scmp.com)

Tom Hardy’s playing Max. What was he like to work with?

He’s fantastic. He’s made Max his own. I look up to him because he’ll always do something unexpected during a take. You have to admire the physical lengths he goes to for these roles – you never know; if the right role came along I might bulk up like Bane, too.

- Nicholas Hoult on working with Tom! Nicholas also says they won’t have Australian accents in Mad Max, because of the international cast.

(Source: shortlist.com)

It’s a real pleasure to work with Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy - I think he’s one of the most exciting actors around at the moment, so it’s fun to watch him on set.

- Nicholas Hoult on working on Mad Max in the Sunday Mirror.

(This is the one photo I have of them together, from 2011, at Elton John’s summer ball thingy. My scan from OK magazine!)

Tom does look slightly crazy in this photo. It’s the beard (which dates this photo to around April or something, right? That’s when his beard was the longest, I think). Or the weird pose. Or the machine gun! *g*

Tom Hardy doing some weapons training on the set of Mad Max Fury Road.

From the same guy (and source!) as this set photo - Greg Van Borssum. 

(Source: facebook.com)

Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Greg van Borssum and Nicholas Hoult on the set of Mad Max. (Or training before filming Mad Max? What’s the source of this photo anyway?)

It’s a very big film. To step into the shoes of Mel Gibson.  George and Mel created the franchise Mad Max, which started off as an independent which then blew up. It took off. It became the Mad Max as you know it with t-shirts and DVDs. No computer game yet, but you know it was early days. This was back before internet. Before all that sort of stuff. I was born the year it came out, so now it’s very funny that I’ve now been asked to play Mad Max. I spent hours. It was kind of an anomaly. There were many, many actors that would probably be right for Mad Max and there’s many out there who could probably do an exceptional job to portray him. It’s especially a challenge to step in the shoes of such an iconic character. I’m aware that I’m going to take a certain number of casualties when I go in and play him.

CGI is not going to be — I think it’s going to be much more about how you deal with action. These things are going to be really there. Big rigs, big explosions, big car crashes. Big violence, you know. It’s going to actually happen as opposed to doing a 2D turned to 3D screen. It’s going to be an adventure, let’s put it that way. 

Imagine a hungry wolf. Or like when you put a cat in the bath. You grab a cat by the throat and stuff it under the fucking water. You know what it looks like? That’s what I’m going to look like. But like a puma. Very hungry at very dangerous. It’s imperative. This is the kind of guy who’s not well. So I have to create that reality.

- Tom Hardy on Mad Max in 2010. I think he dropped the hungry wolf/puma thing… Full photo - including a wicked motorbike - was posted here.