# ‘Digger’ Trailer: Tom Cruise Spent Days Listening to Alejandro G. Iñárritu Read Him the Script

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/digger-trailer-tom-cruise-spent-days-listening-to-alejandro-g-inarritu-read-him-the-script/
- Published: 2026-07-14T02:32:12+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-14T08:47:15+00:00
- Original publisher: The Hollywood Reporter
- Original article: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/tom-cruise-digger-trailer-1236646274/
- Topics: Entertainment, Film

## Key points

- Cruise says Iñárritu read him the full Digger script aloud
- First Digger trailer shows Cruise unrecognisable under prosthetics
- Film seen as Cruise's return to serious, awards-focused acting

## Summary

Tom Cruise has revealed that Alejandro G. Iñárritu spent several days personally reading him the entire script for their new film Digger, a technique Cruise says he uses with directors to fully absorb their creative vision before contributing his own ideas. The revelation, shared at a Warner Bros. trailer launch event, underscores how the film represents a deliberate shift for Cruise, who has spent the past decade dominating blockbuster franchises like Mission: Impossible and Top Gun: Maverick and is now positioning Digger as a return to serious, awards-calibre acting.

The first Digger trailer debuted on Monday, showing Cruise almost unrecognisable beneath heavy makeup and prosthetics, in what is being billed as the culmination of his 40-year career. Iñárritu, who won consecutive directing Oscars including for 2015's The Revenant, conceived the project afterwards and approached Cruise roughly seven years ago, having long admired his 2000 film Amores Perros. Cruise, a three-time acting Oscar nominee for Born on the Fourth of July, Jerry Maguire and Magnolia, called this his first character-actor role since Tropic Thunder's Les Grossman.

## Coverage

- [The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Digger’ Trailer: Tom Cruise Spent Days Listening to Alejandro G. Iñárritu Read Him the Script](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/tom-cruise-digger-trailer-1236646274/)
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