Mad Max Prequel Furiosa Should Follow A Chris Hemsworth Career Trend

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While Chris Hemsworth is best known as a blockbuster hero, the actor has proven he can play effective, unsettling villains in recent years, and he should do so again in the upcoming Mad Max prequel Furiosa. Chris Hemsworth is one of the three major stars who have been announced as part ofFuriosa’s cast. The actor will appear alongside Tom Burke and Anya Taylor-Joy in the 2024 Mad Max prequel. Taylor-Joy plays Furiosa's titular antiheroine, but Burke and Hemsworth’s roles are currently unknown.

For viewers who know Hemsworth from the MCU’s colorful, comical Thor franchise, the actor’s as-yet-unnamed role in the Mad Max: Fury Road prequel may seem pretty obvious. As a blockbuster hero, it stands to reason that Hemsworth will play the movie’s comparative good guy and Mad Max equivalent. Without Mad Max himself, Furiosa needs a deuteragonist which is where Hemsworth presumably comes in.

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However, viewers who have seen Hemsworth’s superb turn as Spiderhead’s sci-fi villain in the Netflix satire will know that he has serious potential as a seemingly charming, secretly volatile antagonist in a futuristic setting. The range Hemsworth has displayed is sometimes overshadowed by the high profile of the actor’s heroic roles, but the star has proved he can play villains as effectively as heroes in the George Saunders adaptation. As such, after his memorable turn in Spiderhead, Hemsworth should play an outright villainous role in Furiosa. While few characters are straight-up heroic in the Mad Max movies, seeing Hemsworth as a villain rather than an antihero or Furiosa’s love interest would be a welcome change of pace from the actor’s now-familiar screen persona.

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