1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,080 Speaker 1: You're listening to Will and Woody. 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 2: Hey's Willing wood He brought to you by NAB this afternoon. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 2: It's not very often you get to say this, but 4 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 2: Chris Hemsworth and and your Taylor Joy join us right 5 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 2: now on the show to talk all about Furiosa, a 6 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 2: mad Max Saga, God. 7 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 3: Than guys, Hey, guys. 8 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 2: Just before we get into this, I just did to 9 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:35,919 Speaker 2: clear something up very very quickly, Chris, what he's been 10 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:37,519 Speaker 2: saying for the two days in the lead up to 11 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:39,519 Speaker 2: this interview, that there is a world in which he 12 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 2: thinks you know who he is. Can you just clarify 13 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:44,919 Speaker 2: for me very quickly, you do not know who Woody is. 14 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 4: I can't see. It's all blurry. Would you give me 15 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 4: a hint? Take those things. 16 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: Off Celebrity Apprentice two years ago. 17 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 4: I love that. 18 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: I was the sideline commentator on nin Je Warrior. 19 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, Dancing with the Stars followed by Ninja Warrior. 20 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 4: That was my. 21 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 2: I think we've all confirmed that you have no idea 22 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:20,839 Speaker 2: who he is. Now we can get on with things. 23 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 3: And that's all that matters. 24 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 1: And that's all that matters. 25 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 5: And I think that's why, given that we're such close friends, Chris, 26 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 5: it was so weird seeing you on screen as a 27 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 5: completely different person, like unrecognizable and quite just it was 28 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 5: so much more than the prosthetics as well. 29 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 1: You had a whoppers. 30 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 5: I was on there a big beard, rank teeth, but mate, 31 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:43,960 Speaker 5: you completely changed your voice, your mannerisms. So to kick 32 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:46,040 Speaker 5: off like, congratulations on that, like it really was a 33 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 5: great performance. 34 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:48,639 Speaker 4: Ah, thank you, thank you. 35 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 5: And yeah, I'm coming for you now because I truly 36 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 5: believe you're the best I actor in the world. 37 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 4: Oh, thank you. 38 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 5: I just through a lot of the film, all you 39 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 5: can see is your eyes, but I always knew what 40 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 5: your character. 41 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: Was thinking or feeling. 42 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 5: And to prove this right now, if you would, could 43 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 5: you maybe say something about Chris just using your eyes 44 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:15,080 Speaker 5: and Chris, you can interpret what she's saying. 45 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 6: Yes, I'll hand you that bottle of water. 46 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 7: Very interesting. 47 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 6: I didn't think there's anyone else on the planet who 48 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 6: has that amount of depth pour out of her soul. 49 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 6: And I often found myself standing opposite on set just 50 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:38,520 Speaker 6: in a hypnotic state. 51 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 4: Thanks one of my lines. Again, impressive, No, it is 52 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 4: intimidating and impressive. 53 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 7: Of the coin though, if you think about these two performances, 54 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 7: I think that's what's so exciting about it. It's the 55 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 7: tension between the two, like incredibly different people that are 56 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 7: coming at the same level of intensity, just from opposite 57 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 7: and to the spectrum. I don't think you can imagine 58 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 7: talking that much. She's just like, what, yeah. 59 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, well speaking intimidating. The other thing that I thought 60 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 2: it was fascinating is it? 61 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 4: Is it? 62 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 3: Am I right in saying any that you learned to 63 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 3: drive for this movie? From Mad Max movie? 64 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 2: Yeah? 65 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 7: So I still don't have my license, but I can 66 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:22,919 Speaker 7: do some very cool stuff. 67 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 2: Is I feel like that's so much fun walking up 68 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 2: to the Orca that's going to play Free Willy and 69 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 2: being like you can't swim. It really is like, I 70 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 2: feel like it's a prerequisite. Okay, cool, you want to 71 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 2: be in Mad Max? 72 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 5: Great? 73 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 3: Have you got your driver's license? 74 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 4: No, listen, it's. 75 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 7: Not out of laziness. I've just been working back to 76 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 7: back for ten years, so I'm never in any place 77 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 7: long enough to actually get my license. I thought I 78 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 7: was going to get it out here in Australia. This 79 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 7: is the longest I've ever been in one place, six months. 80 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 7: Sydney and Brokenhill. 81 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 4: This is where she would love to have a broken 82 00:03:57,480 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 4: automatically gets a license in any kind. 83 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 5: Without giving too much away, they are like, there are 84 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 5: flipped cars and a lot of accidents in the Mad 85 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 5: Movie comes to the territory, I'm not sure if you're 86 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:11,839 Speaker 5: putting your best foot forward if you want to drive 87 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:19,840 Speaker 5: in license after that film, An, yeah, sorry, I want 88 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 5: to pick up what you were talking about with the 89 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,720 Speaker 5: two characters that very very different people, And I'd say 90 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 5: the whole movie is pretty much predicated on the fact 91 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 5: that Anya, you hate Chris right, and I wonder, well, but. 92 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,720 Speaker 3: That's not what guys are saying. Something else, Well, well, 93 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 3: I do. 94 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 5: But did you have to be a little bit wary 95 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 5: around when the cameras were off, not getting too friendly 96 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 5: because you had to maintain that hate on camera because 97 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 5: it was so real? 98 00:04:58,120 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 2: No? 99 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, absolutely not. Actually, Like, when I think 100 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 7: about the most intense moments that we share together, it 101 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 7: always makes me laugh because it's like anger, violence, and 102 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,120 Speaker 7: then the second that it finishes, I'm like, are you okay? 103 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 5: Can I get you water? 104 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 4: Like what do you need? And he's like, for the 105 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:14,679 Speaker 4: love of God, like it's. 106 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 7: Fine, It's gonna be okay, But no, I think honestly, 107 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 7: what it was is we got along really great at 108 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 7: the beginning, but then we got sent to opposite ends 109 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 7: of this universe. So when we finally got the chance 110 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 7: to get back together again, it was kind of a relief. 111 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 6: Yeah, geograph film and its out fifteen years and yeah, 112 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:38,279 Speaker 6: a lot of se separate in an other vehicle. And 113 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 6: so she was saying, you know, we'd be waving at 114 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 6: each other across the ya, how's your weekend. 115 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 7: That's what we're bursting in our minds. By the way, 116 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 7: we're going m hate you. 117 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:54,279 Speaker 4: Anyway. 118 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:55,839 Speaker 3: So while they watched, the. 119 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:06,839 Speaker 5: People watched and maybe no, that's your inner monologue. 120 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 8: My biography Chris after story, Oh that's good gear. 121 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 3: We got more with Chris Hemsworth and your Taylor Joy. 122 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 2: Right up next they're talking all about Furiosa, a Mad 123 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 2: Max Saga, which is in Cinema's a May twenty three. 124 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 2: More with the two of these absolute superstars right up 125 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:26,719 Speaker 2: next time, Well them wod it's kiss. 126 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 3: Hate, billing body this brand new Mad Max movie. 127 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 2: It's called Furiosa, a Mad Max Saga, stars Chris Hemsworth 128 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 2: and your Taylor at Joy and they join us right 129 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:39,040 Speaker 2: now amazingly guys, Welcome back to Will and Woody. 130 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 3: Chris. 131 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 2: I want to bring this up to you because I 132 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 2: I I read something about you recently, an interview that 133 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 2: you did with Vanity Fair talking about your role as Thor, 134 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 2: and I know, would you pick this up just before 135 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,839 Speaker 2: about the different sort of character that you played in 136 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 2: Mad Max, And I know you said that you felt 137 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,040 Speaker 2: like you were pretty replaceable compared to some of your 138 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 2: co stars in the Marvel franchise. And I feel as 139 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 2: if did you feel as if this was an opportunity 140 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 2: to kind of like push yourself into a different area 141 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 2: of the craft that you hadn't been in for a 142 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:08,119 Speaker 2: long time. 143 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think just. 144 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 6: What I had felt at a certain point in the 145 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 6: in the franchise, in the Marvel space that I was 146 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 6: just kind of doing the same thing. 147 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 4: I was like, we've got to kind of mixed up. 148 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 6: And that's when Tiger came along and Ragnarok were able 149 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 6: to sort of pivot. 150 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 4: And then make it fun more time. 151 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 6: But like for a period I did I felt like this, 152 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 6: I'm not I'm not being given a lot, nor am 153 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 6: I you know, there's I'm not there's not the opportunity 154 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 6: to sort of contribute to something and where's you know, 155 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 6: and then again I've played that character what eight or 156 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 6: nine times now, and you kind of run out of ideas, 157 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 6: and this it was a completely new landscape. There was, 158 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 6: you know, the opportunity to play the villain all of 159 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 6: a sudden, I didn't have to abide by the sort 160 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 6: of rules and expectations the hero. I could kind of 161 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 6: be a little more sort of free and unpredictable and 162 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:02,920 Speaker 6: run wild. And so it was creatively really satisfying, yea, 163 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 6: And creatively to sort of, you know, have the sort 164 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 6: of physical transformation and look in the mirror and go, 165 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 6: I don't know who that is staring back at me, 166 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 6: and and just kind of. 167 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 4: Again have fun, you know, like to enjoy it. 168 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 6: As simple as as it sounds, it's like, just get 169 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 6: back to that playfulness and enjoy that. As kids we 170 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 6: have access to immediately and in abundance, and then the 171 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 6: older we get the sort of critic and the voice 172 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 6: and the judgment and so on and whatever comes into 173 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 6: play with George created such a such a beautiful script, 174 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 6: but also an environment where it was about kind of 175 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 6: you know, interpret show us, to show us what you 176 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 6: want to do. 177 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:43,679 Speaker 4: Experiment try. I think take risks and a lot of fun. 178 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:44,560 Speaker 3: Irony there. 179 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 2: There's irony in the fact that you're kind of playing 180 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 2: a character who's you know, became sort of defined by 181 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:53,439 Speaker 2: this idea of sort of laconic fun. But then that 182 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 2: the fun became restrictive, and then when you've got a 183 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 2: chance to go and play a villain, that's what you 184 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 2: found all liberating, which which and you can see that 185 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 2: by the way, as soon as I walked into the cinema, 186 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:05,439 Speaker 2: I was like, oh wow. And for me, a test 187 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 2: of a really great actor enjoying what they're doing is 188 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 2: I don't recognize the actor, and they had something a 189 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 2: lot to do with the prosthesis, but the accident manners, Yeah, yourself, 190 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 2: it was it's really as the department. 191 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 6: I got to thank Luca Vanilla and Mateo Silvester who 192 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 6: helped me design that sort of look and the character. 193 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 6: We spent a number of weeks doing that. 194 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:30,560 Speaker 5: So did you really want to make yourself look as 195 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 5: scary as possible? I think I felt it's an ulterior 196 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 5: motive here because your wife Elsa also has a cameo 197 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:41,320 Speaker 5: where she's shooting a sniper rifle off a horse. 198 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 1: And then obviously you're terrifying as well. 199 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,320 Speaker 5: Was the big plan here just a way of scaring 200 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 5: your kids by showing them that movie so they don't 201 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:48,959 Speaker 5: do anything in the. 202 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 4: Future less they're not scared easily. Let me say that. 203 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 6: In fact, if I was to head off into the 204 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 6: wasteland and bring three things with me to survive and 205 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 6: be my kids and send them out into the fray, 206 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:10,520 Speaker 6: more intimidating than you know, than anything. 207 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:14,959 Speaker 5: But yeah, I just imagine the dinner table now also 208 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 5: bringing out the sniper rifle prop gun and it's like 209 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 5: your broccoli. 210 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 4: You know, I'll do your homework. 211 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 3: Guys. 212 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 2: It's been really nice to meet both of you, be 213 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 2: introduced to both of you. Congratulations on what is an 214 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:32,839 Speaker 2: epic movie Furio so Mad Max Saga in cinemas May 215 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 2: twenty three, and Chris, been a pleasure. 216 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 3: Thanks for coming to Will and Boddy. 217 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:36,719 Speaker 4: Thank you so much. 218 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 5: Hear more of the boys on the full podcast just 219 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 5: scroll up.