Chris Hemsworth, who plays the mystery antagonist in the upcoming Mad Max: Fury Road prequel, provides more details about the character. In some ways, Tom Hardy’s titular character was reduced to a supporting role in George Miller’s eagerly anticipated 2015 return to the Mad Max universe, with Charlize Theron’s Furiosa mainly bearing the emotional burden of the picture.
Despite the lack of a Mad Max: Fury Road sequel, a prequel film tracing Furiosa’s beginnings is currently in post-production, with filmmaker Miller returning and Anya Taylor-Joy playing the title character. There isn’t much information available about the project yet, although it has been announced that Hemsworth will portray the main antagonist in Furiosa.
Chris Hemsworth recently spoke with Vanity Fair and shared more information about his villainous role as well as what fans can anticipate from him in the 2024 release of Furiosa. Hemsworth, being careful not to reveal too much, says that despite the villain’s appearance of evilness, there will be depth to him and areas of him that the audience can relate to. He said, “He’s a very complicated, somewhat evil individual. Yeah, you don’t believe you’re evil though. I’m saying that from the outset, I found ways to defend his actions and empathize and understand him as I had to. That was my job. But yeah, there’s a light and a darkness to him that I haven’t played with before.”
Although nothing more than the fact that Hemsworth is portraying a villain has been verified, there has long been talk that he might actually be Immortan Joe from the Mad Max universe. Hugh Kaeys-Byrne, who sadly passed away, played the title character in Mad Max: Fury Road, Colonel Joe Moore, also known as Immortan Joe. The protagonist rules oppressively over a sizable civilisation in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, keeping a big number of wives. The main chase in Mad Max: Fury Road starts when Furiosa assists these wives in escaping, and it concludes with the villain’s horrifying demise in a huge automobile crash.