{"id":75438,"date":"2015-05-06T12:13:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T11:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=75438"},"modified":"2015-05-06T12:51:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T11:51:07","slug":"mad-max-fury-road-max-is-like-batman-or-superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/interviews\/mad-max-fury-road-max-is-like-batman-or-superman\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Max Fury Road: Max is “like Batman or Superman”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tom Hardy likens Mad Max to Superman and Batman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The original Mad Max<\/em> <\/strong>plays out as a chase spin on a revenge movie, as highway cop Max punishes the lowlifes who brutalised his family and partner. It\u2019s in Mad Max 2<\/em><\/strong> that we get a better idea of who the character is in Miller\u2019s fully post-apocalyptic world. He\u2019s a man who\u2019s looking to be on the road alone, but there are lines that he won\u2019t stand to see crossed.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s more of a spiritual cousin to Clint Eastwood\u2019s Man With No Name or Toshiro Mifune\u2019s Samurai than he is a six-packed saviour of the world\u2019s end – but according to Tom Hardy, he is still very much a superhero.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing about Max is that he is quite real,\u201d enthuses Hardy. \u201cThings hurt Max. He is not somebody who can fly, or somebody who if he stubs his toe, it is not going to hurt. He is not someone who can just leap across a river. He has not got any superhero abilities. But he is as iconic as your Batman or your Superman; he is very earthed.<\/p>\n

“He was one of our \u2018superheroes\u2019, if you like, who wasn\u2019t necessarily a superhero, but an iconic character; in the same way that Batman would be. The world around him is fantastical, but built on very solid materials.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it came to taking on the role of Max, Hardy maintains that the decision was an easy one. \u201cI didn\u2019t hesitate at all,\u201d he states. \u201cI think, as a young actor, to play Max is a huge opportunity. It\u2019s fantastic. To be honoured and graced to get the opportunity to play, out of all the superheroes that are about \u2013 bottom line \u2013 the most cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mad Max: Fury Road<\/em> will be released in cinemas on 15 May 2015. For more on the biggest movies, pick up the latest issue of SciFiNow.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom Hardy tells us why Mad Max Fury Road’s star is every inch a superhero<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":75439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,1718,7],"tags":[2295],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Mad-Max-Fury-Road.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}