re: The Mad Max films (no spoilers)

They pretty much just had random people come out for a lot of the roles. Gibson was a complete unknown at the time. Some of about how low budget it actually is and how they cut corners is pretty cool. It was either the first one or the second one, but I think they actually used football equipment that was just laying around at some of the cast members houses as costumes. They told cast to just wear what they had laying around their house.