“We had to go from little drummer boy to Spinal Tap on wheels,” said Gibson. The idea behind the character, production designer Colin Gibson explained to BuzzFeed News, is that the Doof Warrior is Mad Max's version of an army's drummer boy, meant to inspire the warriors with a constant stream of rousing music. It wasn't until iOTA formally met with Miller about the role, however, that he learned that it would require him to dangle from a web of bungee cables as he tore through the desert in Namibia with dozens of vehicles all around him. I blackened out my teeth and went in there looking pretty disgusting. So I just kind of got in my best Mad Max 2 outfit: feathers and leather and bits and pieces.
“They said the character was somewhere between Keith Richards and a scarecrow. “They wanted me to basically bring a guitar,” he said. Roughly a year later, iOTA got a call for an audition. IOTA during a media preview for Smoke & Mirrors in Sydney on Jan. Still, he had grown up idolizing director George Miller's original Mad Max trilogy, so when he first heard about Miller's long-delayed efforts to make a fourth Mad Max movie, he told his agents, “I'd just do anything to be in that film.” But prior to Mad Max: Fury Road, his only other film experience was playing the crazed orchestra leader in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby in 2013. He first made an impact as a performer when he played the title role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, going on to win acclaim for lead roles in productions of The Rocky Horror Show and Smoke and Mirrors (which he co-created). The 46-year-old started his career as a rock star, releasing five albums between 19 in his native Australia. “I was hanging from the top of this truck tearing through the desert, just going, 'How did this happen?! How did I get here?!'” “It was so amazing,” iOTA told BuzzFeed News by phone from Sydney. But that is nothing in comparison to the joy experienced by the man who played him, Australian actor-musician iOTA. The character makes a lasting impression without speaking a word, and he is already some people's favorite part about the movie. He's the manic, masked guitarist perched atop a giant rolling stage festooned with massive speakers, surrounded by a marauding war party tearing through the desert, as he blasts rock metal licks from an electric guitar fashioned from a bed pan that also doubles as a flame thrower. Of all the batshit insanity bursting out of every frame in Mad Max: Fury Road, one of the most delightful surprises is the Doof Warrior. IOTA as the Doof Warrior in Mad Max: Fury Road.
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