{"id":613786,"date":"2026-09-27T23:38:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T23:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/613786\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T23:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T23:38:50","slug":"tom-cruise-has-two-words-to-describe-william-and-kate-after-digger-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/613786\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise has two words to describe William and Kate after Digger premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tom Cruise<\/a> described the Prince and Princess of Wales as “amazing” and “charismatic” after they joined him at the premiere for his latest feature Digger<\/a>.<\/p>\n

William<\/a> and Kate<\/a> were present at Tuesday\u2019s central London screening, an occasion that also served as a royal film performance \u2013 an exclusive gathering showcasing the contributions of off-screen personnel across the UK film and TV industry.<\/p>\n

The 64-year-old actor was accompanied on the black carpet by figures including Sir David Beckham<\/a> and actor Riz Ahmed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Appearing on The Graham Norton Show to talk about the occasion, Cruise remarked that he had enjoyed having the royals there.<\/p>\n

He described the couple as “amazing” and “charismatic”. <\/p>\n

“I had such a good time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"TomTom Cruise during filming for the Graham Norton Show (PA)<\/p>\n

During the premiere, a smiling Cruise commented \u201cgreat jacket\u201d<\/a> as William walked towards him wearing a tuxedo with a striking, double-breasted, velvet jacket and bow tie.<\/p>\n

Kate wore a purple, floor-sweeping, Jenny Packham dress accessorised with Diana, Princess of Wales\u2019s earrings<\/a> and the Queen Mother\u2019s amethyst sautoir necklace.<\/p>\n

On the season return of Norton\u2019s talk show, Cruise also explained the extensive transformation he had to undergo using prosthetics for Digger.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me make it clear \u2013 none of that is me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe make-up was taking so long that I decided to get it down from six hours to one \u2013 it was like a ballet getting everything in place. It was just like Formula 1. I had someone else hold the stopwatch.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actor stars opposite Ahmed, Sandra Huller and Jesse Plemons in the film, in which he plays an oil tycoon whose company sets off an ecological disaster before being tasked with a mission to save humanity from his own mess.<\/p>\n

\"AlejandroAlejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, Prince William, Prince of Wales, Catherine, Princess of Wales and Tom Cruise attend the \u2018Digger\u2019 (Getty)<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cMy character is outrageous and unpredictable. He says things that others may be thinking and never say. It\u2019s a timeless story about power, greed, and ego framed in a very timely manner by Alejandro G Inarritu \u2013 one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never read a script like it, and I have never seen a character like Digger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cruise also told Norton about his childhood dream to have an \u201cadventurous life\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI am always doing something, learning something new which I can add to characters. I want to push every artform. I love the challenge of doing one thing while working on another. To create is life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inarritu has previously won two Oscars for best director for Birdman and The Revenant.<\/p>\n

This will be Cruise\u2019s first film since the 2025 release of Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning.<\/p>\n

Digger will be released in cinemas on 2 October.<\/p>\n

The Graham Norton Show airs at 10.40pm on Friday on BBC One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,302172,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-613786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-graham-norton-show-london-pa2026","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613786","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=613786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}