Hugh Jackman and Garrett Hedlund at a press conference in San Diego PHOTO BY THE AUTHOR
Jackman adds, “We had a dress up box and all the pirates had a chance to put on boots, dresses, hats, whatever and we would interchange them for like a week. But there was a reason behind all of them, there’s elements of samurai . . . I just lapped it up. I was Levi’s (Miller) age when I first saw Mad Max: Road Warrior. I don’t know if you remember the villains, the gangs, the biker gang, they were so eccentric and weird. If you go back and look at what they were wearing, that was terrifying for me because they would walk in a weird way, the they had make up it was so bizarre . . . ”