There are several young actors stepping in to the spotlight at the moment whose screen presence and raw potential are exhilarating to see; British actor Tom Hardy is soon to be seen in one of the year’s biggest films with a role in Christopher Nolan’s Inception and was recently cast as the lead in George Miller’s revisiting of Mad Max.
Our good friend Alex Billington from FirstShowing sat down to talk with Hardy about Inception but found the actor open to discussing what he could about Mad Max: Fury Road. Of particular interest were the words Hardy used to describe Miller’s take on this revisiting of the world of Mad Max,
It’s a relaunch and revisit to the world, an entire restructuring. That’s not to say that it’s not picking up or leaving off from the Mad Max you know already, but it’s a nice re-take on the entire world using the same character, depositing him in the same world, but bringing him up to date by 30 years.
And this quote from Hardy,
Obviously Mel would’ve been perfect for it but, for some reason, he’s not doing it and I am.
echoes an interview he gave to MTV at the end of last year, before he had been officially cast,
The Mad Max figure is a big figure, and I have to get my head around that. I would have to pick up where Mel left off, but in all honesty, it would be ridiculous to pick up where Mel left off. He is Mad Max.
If you’re interested in Tom Hardy as an actor, or Mad Max as a franchise you have to check out Alex’s write up of the conversation here, there’s much more to read and Hardy goes into detail about the shoot, the proposed scale and how the inevitable CG fits into the wasted world. Hardy is one of the most interesting actors working today and seems up for stepping into Mel Gibson’s shoes and making the role his own.
