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Tom Cruise<\/a>\u2019s co-stars be warned \u2013 the Mission Impossible<\/a> actor has one request from his future colleagues: that they\u2019re as committed as he is. <\/p>\n

The famously intense actor has starred in Hollywood hits Rain Man, Born on the Fourth of July and Jerry Maguire, and last year, the four-time Oscar nominee received an honorary Academy Award<\/a> for his work in film. <\/p>\n

In a rare sit-down interview, Cruise opened up about his work ethic and what he expects from those on his film sets ahead of the release of Digger, a black comedy directed by Alejandro I\u00f1\u00e1rritu. <\/p>\n

In a discussion with GQ<\/a>, the 64-year-old said: \u201cI work hard, and people that work with me, they know. I expect a lot and I\u2019m up-front about it. It\u2019s like: \u2018The rumours are true. And do you want this?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TomTom Cruise in forthcoming film \u2018Digger\u2019 (Warner Bros)<\/p>\n

When asked whether he really says that, Cruise replied: \u201cYes! We\u2019re there. I\u2019m like, \u2018Trust me, the rumours are true. I\u2019ll be here before you. What experience do you want?\u2019 And I\u2019m very open.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that from a young age, he\u2019s been told that he\u2019s \u201cso intense\u201d to work with. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018I don\u2019t know what to say. I am intense,\u2019\u201d he said laughing. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got a very good sense of humour about it, but it was like: When I\u2019m interested in something, I want to learn it. I want to understand it. And you want to blast through the confusion and kind of build up that ability.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actor also revealed that when he\u2019s not on a movie set, he\u2019s preparing for his next film. \u201cI\u2019m always studying something. I\u2019m always learning something, always. Movies don\u2019t just start when you\u2019re shooting it and on a movie set,\u201d he said, adding that I\u00f1\u00e1rritu spent 10 years making Digger. <\/p>\n

\"TomTom Cruise speaking to GQ (Youtube: GQ)<\/p>\n

The film, set for release next month, sees Cruise dramatically transform into wealthy oil tycoon Digger Rockwell, who\u2019s tasked with saving humanity after placing the world in peril. He stars alongside Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra H\u00fcller and other actors in the cast. <\/p>\n

Fans were left gobsmacked by Cruise\u2019s appearance in the first trailer for the film, in which he appears to prosthetics, with some predicting that he could nab an Oscar<\/a> for his performance in the kooky project. <\/p>\n

Earlier this year, it was confirmed that the actor would be reprising his role as Pete \u201cMaverick\u201d Mitchell<\/a> in the third sequel to his 1986 action hit Top Gun. He returned to the role back in 2022 for Top Gun: Maverick, which became the actor\u2019s highest-grossing box office debut at the time<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-601259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}