There were leather pants, there were all these belts I put on and I had feathers on my shoulders and a black leather gimp mask turned backwards on my head. Yeah, so I’d take my guitar and play a little Keith Richardsy and pulled off a couple of his moves and dressed up in my best Mad Max kind of gear. They gave me a brief that the character was somewhere between Keith Richards and a scarecrow. The role just turned up and they asked if I wanted to try it out. We knew Mad Max was possibly filming and I was very keen to just do anything to be a part of it. I do all of them so that when I get bored of one, I can do the other. I’m a painter, a performer, a writer, I sort of do lots of things. IOTA: I’m an actor and a musician and an artist. We talked to iOTA on the phone from Sydney about landing the role, the growing cult of his character, and the only thing that will endure the apocalypse: nü-metal. A star of stage and screen, he has played Frank-N-Furter in productions of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and he even beat out Hugh Jackman for Best Male Actor in a Musical at the Helpmann Awards (which is sort of akin to the Tonys). In a film where the protagonist spends the entire first act being used as a helpless blood bag while strapped to the hood of kamikaze-mobile, where lactating women are pumped for their breastmilk, and where tremendous, thundering explosions are so constant that they’re practically lead characters, to be the element that moviegoers all want to talk about on Monday morning, without even speaking a line of dialogue, is impressive.ĭoof is played by Sean Hape, or iOTA, as he is better known in Australia. To stand out in a movie like Fury Road is nothing short of incredible.

Doof was so popular he even made it into the headlines of some of the reviews, even though his on-screen time probably only totaled to less than a minute. People immediately took to the internet after the Fury Road premiered, demanding to know more about this masked madman and his (real, working) axe ( for which Nick Zinner of Yeah Yeah Yeahs provided some noises). Looking like a rejected member of Slipknot, he is the focal point for the eye and fans of the movie have picked up on it. In a barren land of rust and sun-worn beiges, Doof stands out in a bright red jumpsuit.

Guitar this war of mine