The role was played by a precocious 8-year-old actor named Emil Minty, who is now 43-year-old married father of two, working in Sydney as the manager of a jewelry store. He looked like Bam Bam Rubble brought to life, and had an even smaller vocabulary than the club-swinging Flintstones tot.
#Mad max cast movie
The original Mad Max movie catapulted Mel Gibson from the Australian desert to international fame, but in the film’s first sequel, 1981′s The Road Warrior, the actor was upstaged by a grunting little kid with a mullet and deadly aim with a razor-sharp boomerang. The Feral Kid is all grown up - and now has two kids of his own.
Details at Get the latest news from in your inbox.Emil Minty as The Feral Kid in ‘The Road Warrior’ and Minty now (Everett Collection/Facebook) Supanova is on Friday to Sunday at Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. “I do get to Perth and Rebecca comes over here as well, so we criss-cross this country.” “We’ve been conducting this long-distance relationship for about five years,” he said. There’s another reason Bisley is keen to head west, his partner is Rebecca Anderson, events manager at the Art Gallery of WA. “I love The Big Steal too, I play Gordon Farkas and even his name cracks me up,” he said.
#Mad max cast series
“George Miller contacted me while they were editing the film and said where can we get the copyright for the song and I said, ‘It’s something my grandmother use to sing, I don’t know if there is any copyright on it’.”īut it’s not only his roles in Mad Max that the veteran actor gets asked about, his fans also want to talk about 90s TV series Water Rats and Police Rescue.Īnother film favourite is 1990 comedy The Big Steal, in which he played a used cars salesman alongside Claudia Karvan and Ben Mendelsohn. “I don’t know why the thought occurred to me, I’m travelling along in the ute, the crash bike on the back and I was singing this song. “I sang this sort of crazy tongue-twisting song just before I get killed in the film and it was something my grandmother use to sing,” he explained. “The fact that Supanova included Mad Max in their program this year, I think it has been great.”īisley has been greeted by fans dressed as Jim Goose, who have replica cars and bikes from the film, and has had a lot of requests to sing a song from the movie. “There’s never been a real forum where the fans could get together,” Bisley said. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the film’s release, Bisley is coming to WA for Supanova Comic Con & Gaming expo, along with Mad Max co-star Hugh Keays-Byrne aka Toecutter. “I would like to see it one day just for a laugh.” Camera Icon Mel Gibson as Max & Steve Bisley as Jim Goose in Mad Max Credit: FILM COMPANY ORION HOME/WARNER BROS. “I think when it was released in the UK, it was the American version, somebody said, ‘You just sound like a Montana cowboy in it’,” he laughed. Mad Max was released to a mixed reception including being banned in New Zealand and Sweden and dubbed for release in the US. Although I didn’t do the stunts, we did a lot of stuff that these days actors wouldn’t be allowed to do given the safety regulations.” “It was filming by the seat of your pants. “A lot of the fast riding was done by stunt men because they have the cinematographer on the back with a camera perching over the rider’s shoulder,” he recalled. We were just given a script and had to audition along with a lot of other guys.”Įven though he had motorcycle skills, luckily Bisley wasn’t expected to do his own hair-raising stunts. “There was no guarantee that we got the role.
“He had come to see some of the graduate productions for our third year,” he explains. Bisley said director George Miller was aware he and Gibson were close when he cast them as mates in Mad Max. In their second year at NIDA, Gibson and Bisley were both cast in low-budget surfing film Summer City. It wasn’t the first film the friends worked on together.
0 kommentar(er)
