Costume designer Norma Moriceau on the set of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985). 

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.

This clip comes from a series of behind-the-scenes segments called ‘Close-up’ where we get to know Young Talent Team members and their families.  

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.

The third and fourth Mad Max movies – Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road – were released 30 years apart.

One of model coordinator Dennis Nicholson's crew members is working on a miniature of a Sydney skyscraper in this production still.

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.

One very common usage of miniature sets is to take a real-world location and – devastate it!

This production still shows the cast and crew on the set of a crashed aeroplane 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