Though many of the distinctive faces in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga will be familiar to anyone who saw 2015 action masterpiece Mad Max: Fury Road, one that definitely won’t be is that of Praetorian Jack.
As played by British actor Tom Burke, who adopts an impressively convincing Antipodean accent for the role, Jack is the Immortan Joe’s main War Rig driver, and an ally to Furiosa in her quest for vengeance against Chris Hemsworth’s despotic warlord Dementus. Unlike Furiosa, Jack’s past is kept a mystery on screen. But Burke – at the behest of director George Miller – filled out the details of Jack’s journey through the Wasteland up to the point we meet him in the film, imagining how exactly he became such an important figure in Joe’s forces.
