Tom Cruise’s ‘Digger’ Transformation Initially Took Six Hours — but He Convinced the Makeup Team to ‘Get It Under an Hour’

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For his new film “Digger,” Tom Cruise transforms into Digger Rockwell, a wealthy oil tycoon who was not blessed with Cruise’s own good looks. In order to put on all the prosthetics for the role, the actor was originally sitting in hair and makeup for six hours — until he convinced the team they could do it faster.

Speaking on Travis and Jason Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast on Friday, Cruise peeled back the curtain into his transformation — which included sporting a fat suit — and how he made it “more efficient.”

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