Nicholas Hoult: Fury Road “Absolutely Insane”

English actor Nicholas Hoult will have two post-apocalyptic movies in two years, the first being “The Young Ones” (2014) and the second being “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015).  Hoult has been hyping up the latter, calling it “absolutely insane”.

“I’ve seen a rough cut,” Hoult told MTV News. “I was just sitting there, going like, ‘Whoa.’ ”

Hoult confirmed that there’s very little dialogue in “Fury Road,” and that when he sat down to read the script for the first time, it was more like reading, “a 300-page comic book, technically. You have the odd word, but the dialogue, it’s strange, the words they used,” he said. “They didn’t speak like I would speak, or like anybody would speak nowadays.”

And for Hoult, that’s all part of the appeal — participating in an unrecognizable world, so fully realized by a visionary like George Miller.

“He’s so smart,” Hoult said of the writer-director. “The world he’s created, it just looks stunning.”  Hoult also hyped the movie when speaking to Collider while promoting The Young Ones:

The whole look of the film. I mean, people can tell from the trailer, from the moment I got down there and saw my character’s vehicle and the attention to detail on, the designs – Instantly I go, “Wow.” And then starting to go through the makeup process and develop that character. It’s a completely different look for me, which is something I always try and do, something different, and I was like, “Well this character is very different, this world is very different. I’m in.” Even just form the audition process and that, you could tell that George was a director I wanted to work with. We did a four hour workshop just for the second audition where we did these honestly games and acting exercises and all this. I walked out of the audition and I was like, “Wow, I have no idea what just happened for the last four hours, but even if I don’t get that role it was a great experience.” Because a lot of times with auditions you walk in, you sit down, alright, scene one, scene two, thanks very much, see you later, and you walk out kind of feeling dissatisfied with it and like you maybe didn’t get a chance to work with it. But with that I felt as though even from just that session I’d learned from George. I was like, “This is something special.” So to get the chance to do the film was very lucky.

And while we’re at it, hype is starting to creep over the Twittersphere.  Check it out.

Oh. My. Word. Just been privy to a 5min scene from Fury Road. If the rest of the film is up to this standard it will totally blow you away.

— Eddie Deighton (@ComXcomics) October 17, 2014