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Now You Can Get the ‘Mad Max’ Look

Hard Faced

The film may be unrelenting, dust-streaked brutality, but Mad Max’s makeup and costume designers faced challenges way beyond making everyone look beaten up.

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Within the first few minutes of Mad Max: Fury Road, audiences have been reintroduced to the cult series’ antihero Max (Tom Hardy)—bearded, alone, and living purely off his instinct for survival.

They have breathlessly watched as he tries to escape a marauding party of War Boys in his beatup muscle car,...

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