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Tom Cruise Transforms in 'Digger' Official Trailer

  • On July 13, actor Tom Cruise debuted heavy facial prosthetics aging him by at least a decade in the Digger trailer, appearing as elderly oil magnate Digger Rockwell wearing a brown cowboy hat with gray hair and posing with one foot on a globe.
  • Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu directs the satire, marking one of Cruise's few projects outside the action genre and representing a significant departure from his typical roles, with Iñárritu co-writing the screenplay alongside Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolás Giacobone and Sabina Berman.
  • Iñárritu praised Cruise's transformation in a video sent to the launch event, stating "The transformation he went through was astonishing" and emphasizing that discovering "the human being behind the actor was just as extraordinary as the performances" proved equally significant.
  • Alongside Cruise, the ensemble cast includes John Goodman, Riz Ahmed, Jesse Plemons, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sandra Hüller, Sophie Wilde, Emma D'Arcy, Burn Gorman and Robert John Burke, with the satire scheduled for theatrical release on October 2.
  • Cruise's radical physical transformation positions Digger as a significant career pivot toward character-driven storytelling, with the actor telling a Los Angeles audience on July 9 that "when you see this film, its totally original.
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By Gonzalo Jiménez, CNN en Español Why does Tom Cruise look unrecognizable in the first trailer for “Digger”? What is the new film directed by Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu about? After watching the preview, the answer isn't simple. What is clear, however, is that it's an ambitious film, with The post What is “Digger,” Tom Cruise's new film, about? appeared first on KVIA.

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The star plays in black comedy by Oscar winner Alejandro Iñárritu with a tummy base and shaky grey hair.

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Tom Cruise was never seen like this: in the new film by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the American actor undergoes the greatest transformation of his career. Portugal may see him in cinemas on October 1, but the ‘trailer' has already left

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The A.V. Club broke the news on Monday, July 13, 2026.
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