Furiosa: Bullied at school, now she’s an actress in the Mad Max saga

“This is what harassment looks likeIn 2020, Australian mother Yaraka Bales filmed her son crying in the back of a car. At the time, 9-year-old Quaden, who was a dwarf, couldn’t stand the incessant bullying of his classmates and demanded to die. .

The kid, who is now thirteen years old, had no idea that today he would be in one of the most anticipated blockbusters of 2024, Furiosa: George Miller’s Mad Max Saga. Although it’s only a small appearance, Kuden Bales plays one of the War Boys in the film’s biggest action scene, which comes in the third chapter, titled Stowaway.

This isn’t the first time Quaden Bales has played George Miller. In 2022, just two years after the viral video was released, an Australian filmmaker invited her to appear in the film Three Thousand Years of Waiting alongside Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba. “She did such a good job that she got a small role in Furiosa“, says the director Sydney Morning Herald.

Quaden Bayles and Anya Taylor-Joy on the set of “Furiosa”:

Images of Quaden Bayles, streamed and viewed millions of times, have touched Australia and the world in need. The distraught mother explains that the school has been reported multiple times and the harassment continues. The schoolgirl is then filmed by other students without her knowledge and constantly teased for her small size.

Very quickly, comedian Brad Williams – himself suffering from dwarfism – collected more than half a million dollars in the bank, receiving the support of Hugh Jackman and basketball player Enes Kanter. The money collected allows the child to spend his stay at Disneyland, and the rest of the prize fund will be donated directly to the school’s anti-bullying associations.

A few days later, the national rugby team, the Indigenous All Stars, invited him to the field to celebrate the arrival of the players before the match.

With two film appearances under his belt, Couden Bales is turning his disability into a strength and seems to have found a way. Will the young actor return in front of George Miller’s camera? Never two without three.

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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is currently in theaters.