Tom Holkenborg, also known by his stage name Junkie XL, has what is easily one of the most exciting resumes of any composer in Hollywood. After working as Hans Zimmer’s assistant on movies such as Man of Steel, he made the leap into composing the scores for popular movies such as Deadpool, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, and Sonic the Hedgehog. However, perhaps his greatest and most popular work is his score for George Miller’s Oscar-winning action masterpiece Mad Max: Fury Road.

The composer returned to the post-apocalyptic wastelands of Australia to create the soundtrack for this summer’s prequel Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which starred Anya Taylor-Joy as a Young Furiosa, seeking revenge against the insane warlord Dementus (Chris Hemsworth), for killing her mother.

Collider was lucky enough to sit down and have a lengthy conversation with Holkenborg to talk about his work on Furiosa and reuniting with Miller for the exciting prequel. He also discussed his friendship with Zimmer, creating a new score for Zack Snyder’s Director’s Cuts of Rebel Moon, and teased his work on Sonic the Hedgehog 3.