7 'Mad Max' franchise stars who have also played Marvel or DC characters
Olivia Singh
- The "Mad Max" film franchise includes a few actors who have also played Marvel or DC characters.
- Tom Hardy, who starred in the post-apocalyptic franchise, has also played Eddie Brock/Venom and Bane.
Tom Hardy, who starred as Max Rockatansky in "Mad Max: Fury Road," has also played Marvel and DC villains.
He played the popular DC Comics villain named Bane in the final installment of Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy, "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012).
More recently, he's played journalist Eddie Brock, who becomes the host of an alien symbiote known as Venom, in Marvel and Sony's "Venom" films.
A third "Venom" film is reportedly in the works.
A few years after starring as Imperator Furiosa in "Mad Max: Fury Road," Charlize Theron joined the MCU as Clea.
Theron made her first appearance as the Marvel character, who's a sorceress from the Dark Dimension and love interest to Doctor Strange in the comics, in the end-credits scene of the 2022 film "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness."
Nicholas Hoult has transformed for his roles as Nux in "Mad Max: Fury Road" and Hank McCoy/Beast in the "X-Men" films.
Hoult told E! News that shaving off all his hair to play Nux, who was basically on death's door at the start of the movie, was "freeing."
The various scars on his lips and body were the result of two hours of makeup and to get the chalky skin tone, clay was applied. In order to achieve a thinner physique, Hoult told Screen Slam that he "didn't eat as much and jumped rope a lot."
To become the furry blue mutant character in multiple movies, beginning with 2011's "X-Men: First Class," Hoult spent hours having make-up, prosthetics, wigs, and a muscle suit applied to him.
Zoë Kravitz, who portrayed Toast the Knowing in "Mad Max: Fury Road," has played various Marvel and DC characters.
She played a mutant named Angel Salvadore, with the ability to spit flaming acid and fly via insect-like wings, in "X-Men: First Class."
Kravitz went on to voice Catwoman in "The Lego Batman Movie" and Mary Jane in "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse." She also starred as Selina Kyle/Catwoman in Matt Reeves' 2022 film "The Batman."
Josh Helman played antagonists in "Mad Max: Fury Road" and the "X-Men" franchise.
In addition to playing Slit, a member of the War Boys in "Fury Road," Helman appeared as William Stryker in "X-Men: Days of Future Past" and "X-Men: Apocalypse."
Anya Taylor-Joy, who appeared in "The New Mutants," will star as the titular character of the upcoming "Furiosa" prequel movie.
Taylor-Joy portrayed Illyana Rasputin, also known as Magik, in the 2020 film "The New Mutants."
"It's the dirtiest and the bloodiest I have ever been, which is saying something, genuinely saying something," the actor told IndieWire of her involvement in the "Mad Max" film. "Any time I get to be dirty or bloody and not perfectly prim and pretty, I'm just having a ball, that's where I feel most comfortable. So yeah, 'Furiosa' was definitely right up my street."
Chris Hemsworth, known for his role as Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, will star in the upcoming "Furiosa" prequel film.
Hemsworth has been portraying Marvel's God of Thunder since the first "Thor" film was released in 2011. To date, he's the only MCU star to lead four standalone installments, most recently playing Thor in "Thor: Love and Thunder." The character is confirmed to return again, but the specifics haven't been announced yet.
Hemsworth will play a villain in "Furiosa" and described the character as "a very complicated, somewhat evil individual" in an interview with Vanity Fair.
"From the outset, I found ways to defend his actions and empathize and understand him as I had to," he said. "That was my job. But yeah, there's a light and a darkness to him that I haven't played with before."
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