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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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A new trailer (see above) shows the first scenes of the movie "Digger" with Hollywood star Tom Cruise (64) and Sandra Hüller (48). Cruise presents itself in the black comedy from a completely different side with a stomach and shaking grey hair. The action star ("Top Gun": "Mission: Impossible") plays an eccentric oil baron called Digger Rockwell, who has to prove himself as the savior of humanity after he has triggered a catastrophe.In the now r…

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The first trailer for 'Digger,' the highly anticipated new film from Oscar-winning Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, has been released. The new look of 64-year-old world-renowned actor Tom Cruise, who stars in the lead role, has surprised moviegoers; he's moved away from his athletic, action-film persona and adopted a new image with aging makeup.

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Beer belly and shaky hair: Hollywood star Tom Cruise can be seen in his new movie "Digger" in a completely different look. See the trailer here.

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White-haired Old Man Tom Cruise in Digger to Release in October. Hollywood actor Tom Cruise has transformed into a white-haired old man. Distributor Warner Bros. Korea announced on the 14th that the movie Digger has confirmed its domestic release this coming October and has unveiled the main poster and second trailer. Digger pushes the world to the brink of destruction...

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