![]() ![]() Mostly they’re grounded in some sort of reality. ‘I am, and I seem to do a lot of it! It’s like playing make-believe as a kid but with some of the most talented people in the world. You’re about to start filming ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ in Montreal. You felt that on set – you’d turn up in this stark landscape with all these incredible creations all around you.’ A lot of the time blockbuster movies are very safe and even though I’m in it I think this is one of the most original things I’ve seen. Then a crew of about 700 people would roll in from nowhere and spend the day driving an armada of vehicles around, blowing stuff up. It’s an isolated place, and literally 360 degrees around you, all you could see was the horizon and heat shimmer. ‘It felt like you were on the moon most days. Was it as brutal and beautiful as it looks? What’s your tip for budding skinheads? Blade or electric? I was eating little and jumping a lot of rope.’ Also, my character is meant to be quite sick and not have much food, so George wanted me to be quite skinny. I was already in Namibia in Africa, so it wasn’t like I was going to bump into anyone I knew. The mohawk got laughed at though, so I just kept it for a day. I was like: you know what, I’m probably not going to shave my head for a long, long time after this, so I might as well do that. ‘Yeah, that was the first step! I went via a mohawk first. Did you start by shaving off your own hair? You’re as skinny as a rake, with horrible scars, white skin and a bald head. You look like a nutter in ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’. Later he’ll be making a lightning trip to Las Vegas to catch the big boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, but before that, he’s friendly and energetic and talking about playing one of cinema’s more terrifying recent creations. When we speak on the phone, it’s Saturday morning in Los Angeles. He’s a machine-obsessed, heavily scarred, post-apocalyptic gang member leaping and bouncing around the screen like a rabid bald puppy. It’s the fourth film in the long-running series that began way back in 1979, and Hoult’s character Nux is the stuff of nightmares. Now the boy from Berkshire is starring opposite Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron in sci-fi fantasy ‘ Mad Max: Fury Road’. Oh, and somewhere along the way he dated his ‘X-Men’ co-star Jennifer Lawrence in an on-off relationship that ended last summer. Since then, the 25-year-old has been in two series of ‘Skins’, acted for fashion supremo-turned-filmmaker Tom Ford in ‘ A Single Man’, and shot two ‘ X-Men’ films as the blue-haired mutant Beast. British actor Nicholas Hoult has come a long way since starring as a floppy-haired kid opposite Hugh Grant in the 2003 movie ‘ About a Boy’. ![]()
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