Hugh Keays-Byrne interview: Toecutter is back - but as a different villain in Mad Max: Fury Road
The IndependentSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. He arrived in Australia in 1973 as part of a Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but it was a part in Stone, the cult Australian biker movie, that brought him to the attention of director George Miller, who cast him in the first Mad Max. The director wanted him to play Immortan Joe, the terrifying gang leader in the franchise’s fourth instalment, Mad Max: Fury Road. open image in gallery Hugh Keays-Byrne as Toecutter in the original Mad Max Immortan, who wears a skull mask, drinks milk from lactating women and harvests organs from men he holds captive in steel cages, would make Toecutter quake in his leather boots. Toecutter was a member of an “oppressed nomadic minority”, he says; Immortan is “a renaissance man – he’s simply trying to bring order into an apocalyptic world”.
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