This is a transcript of an excerpt about George Miller and the making of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, featured in the Australians in Hollywood exhibition at the NFSA, 2022.
Costume designer Norma Moriceau drew on her background in the London punk scene when creating iconic costumes for Mad Max 2 and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
Dust and sand are fanned across the miniature set of a ruined Sydney while a camera does a fly-through to film the closing sequences for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
Perhaps emboldened by the success of the previous two Mad Max films, the Kennedy Miller production team had no qualms about creating an obvious Australian location for Mad Max
