{"id":630050,"date":"2026-09-20T00:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630050\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T00:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T00:54:09","slug":"tom-cruise-talks-digger-transformation-cut-time-from-6-hours-to-under-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/630050\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise Talks Digger Transformation, Cut Time From 6 Hours to Under 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTom Cruise<\/a> is revealing how he helped cut down the time it took to transform him into his unrecognizable character<\/a> in the upcoming movie Digger<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn a Friday episode of Travis and Jason Kelce\u2019s New Heights podcast, Cruise said it originally took six hours for the hair and makeup teams to apply the prosthetics that transformed him for the role. But with his busy filming schedule \u2014 and a need for some sleep \u2014 he knew the process had to become more efficient.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe first time we did the makeup, it took six hours,\u201d Cruise said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI gotta sleep at least six [hours]. They keep saying I need more\u2026 but OK, that\u2019s 12,\u201d he continued. \u201cNow, we have 12-hour days filming. So now that\u2019s six hours on, two hours off with the makeup.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSo Cruise came up with a plan to speed things up, which included bringing in a chalkboard and having someone use a stopwatch to time how long it took the team to apply each prosthetic.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI had a guy there with a stopwatch, and I\u2019m like, \u2018OK, you see that time, six hours? By the time we\u2019re done, we\u2019re going to get it under an hour,\u2019\u201d Cruise said. \u201cThey were like, \u2018No, I\u2019m not doing that; it will never happen.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018OK, first of all, if you say no, you can\u2019t do it; you will never get there. So can we agree that we\u2019ll maybe make it a little less?\u2019 So with each piece that was going on, it was timed and then we\u2019d drill and practice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd it ended up working.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey were like, \u2018What?!\u2019 And they didn\u2019t even know it, and they didn\u2019t even rush,\u201d the Mission: Impossible star recalled.<\/p>\n

\n\tCruise said the experience reflected how he approaches his work in general.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI like going into a system, studying it and trying to figure out how I can do it better, more efficient,\u201d he said. \u201cThe films that I make, I\u2019m constantly going, how can I do it better? How do I prepare better?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCruise previously underwent a heavy prosthetic transformation to play studio executive Les Grossman in the 2008 comedy Tropic Thunder. Digger marks his first character role of this kind since then.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu<\/a>\u2019s Digger, Cruise plays eccentric oil tycoon Digger Rockwell, who has gray hair, wrinkles and a larger frame than the actor. After creating an environmental disaster, Rockwell is ordered by the U.S. president, played by John Goodman, to fix the damage.<\/p>\n

\n\tDigger opens in theaters Oct. 2. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise is revealing how he helped cut down the time it took to transform him into his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[176207,321,176208,93,61,60,5592,2031],"class_list":["post-630050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-alejandro-g-iu00f1u00e1rritu","tag-celebrities","tag-digger","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tom-cruise","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}