Blood, Sweat & Chrome by Kyle Buchanan

Author:Kyle Buchanan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2021-12-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

The War Party

Wouldn’t it be liberating to play a War Boy? Certainly, all those stunt performers thought so: In Nadia Townsend’s War Boy workshops, they would scream, cry, and beat their chests to coax each other into ever-escalating emotional extremes. But even for the more experienced actors in Immortan Joe’s army, that uninhibited spirit proved contagious.

British actor Nicholas Hoult had never taken a role quite like Nux, the War Boy who tries to chase down Furiosa and then, after an ignominious defeat, teams up with her instead. “It was a fun character to play because he was completely true and wholeheartedly committed to whatever he saw at that moment,” said Hoult, whose previous performances had been played in a far more muted register. Inhabiting Nux allowed Hoult to let loose, and in a film where most of our heroes are grim and taciturn, the War Boy’s wild jolt of talkative energy was more than welcome.

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George Miller For me, the biggest character arc is Nux, because he goes from being a fanatic devotee of the Immortan, convinced that this is his day to die historic on the Fury Road, and then events disabuse him of his belief system. He makes the choice to make the most of what he’s got, and basically relinquishes his own self-interest in the cause of a greater good.

Nicholas Hoult He’s been brainwashed since he was a kid, growing up in Immortan Joe’s world where he completely believes that dying in battle is his ultimate path to Valhalla. I always viewed him a little bit as a puppy, because he completely believes that but when he starts to get his eyes opened to all these new ideas, thoughts, and people then he suddenly realizes there’s this greater cause to die for and things much bigger than what he’s been brought up to believe.

James Nicholas He had probably the largest journey, from sycophant to savior.

Nicholas Hoult Before we started shooting, George sent over hours of videos. You could log into this database that told Nux’s story from the moment he was conceived to the moment we see him in the film, basically every day of his life. It was this amazing in-depth backstory and a sense of the world as well.

Mark Sexton Because of the fact that the world was toxic, and humanity was essentially dying, almost all of the War Boys had leukemias and blood cancers or tumors.

Eric Blakeney When we started talking about the story, George had a big thing that a certain kind of cancer makes having sex incredibly painful for a man. We were talking about the development of Nux and his romance with this girl in the truck, and George wanted to do a scene where she wants to have sex with him, but it’s too painful and he can’t. And I said, “George, that’s not going to work. I don’t think we can show him whining that it hurts his winkie too much.”

Mark Sexton The idea was that most people didn’t last past the age of twenty to twenty-five—they all died.

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