{"id":799806,"date":"2026-07-13T20:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/799806\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T20:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T20:18:08","slug":"tom-cruise-is-utterly-transformed-in-digger-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/799806\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise is utterly transformed in Digger trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto \">\u201cThe film needed Tom,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/07\/digger-trailer-tom-cruise-1236980669\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I\u00f1\u00e1rritu said<\/a> via video at a Warner Bros. screening last week. \u201cWe wanted to work together since the beginning of the century. I admired him as an actor for years, and that wasn\u2019t a surprise for me. The surprise was discovering that the human being behind the actor was just as extraordinary as the performances I will see throughout his career. The transformation he went through was astonishing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the film turns out to be as good as this trailer, Cruise (and I\u00f1\u00e1rritu) might be looking at another Oscar nomination. John Goodman co-stars as a geriatric US president, with Mercedes Hernandez playing Digger\u2019s housekeeper. The cast also includes Sandra H\u00fcller, Jesse Plemons, Riz Ahmed, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sophie Wilde, Emma D\u2019Arcy, Robert John Burke, Burn Gorman, and Pip Torrens in as-yet-undisclosed roles.<\/p>\n<p>Digger hits theaters on October 2, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe film needed Tom,\u201d I\u00f1\u00e1rritu said via video at a Warner Bros. screening last week. \u201cWe wanted to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-799806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}