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

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 […]

VarietyVariety•Ellise Shafer18 Sept
  • favorable toward Tom Cruise · 79%

Tom Cruise Says Taylor Swift Was ‘Schooling Me on Football’ at Chiefs Game, Calls Her a ‘Brilliant Musician and Director’

Tom Cruise and Taylor Swift made headlines on Monday when they sat next to each other at the Kansas City Chiefs’ first game of the season. But what were the two megastars talking about? “She was schooling me on football. For real,” Cruise revealed to Jimmy Fallon during an appearance on “The Tonight Show” on […]

VarietyVariety•Ellise Shafer18 Sept
  • favorable toward Taylor Swift · 76%

‘I thank God for killing me and bringing me back’: Nicolas Winding Refn on the emergency op that inspired his new sci-fi horror

Notorious for ultra-violent movies like Drive and The Neon Demon, the Dane had lost the will to direct until ‘the Tom Cruise of surgeons’ saved his life – and triggered an astonishing creative rebirth Nicolas Winding Refn has his phone out, showing me one of the goriest scenes he’s ever been involved in. Given that the Danish director’s movies have involved hands getting sliced off, eyeballs being gouged out and a son reaching deep inside his mother’s womb, that’s certainly saying something. In this video, the camera is fixed upon a beating heart when suddenly – slash! – it gets sliced open with a knife. We travel into the open chamber, as needles arrive to pierce through the muscle. Unsettling and compelling, could this be a future Palme d’Or winner? Unlikely. You see, Refn isn’t the director of this footage; he’s actually the guy lying conked out in the operating room while a surgeon attends to him. Requesting that someone films your own heart surgery is a very Nicolas Winding Refn thing to do. “At first they said no,” says the film-maker known for Drive, Bronson and The Neon Demon. “But then they said, ‘As it’s you, we’ll record it.’” Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Tim Jonze17 Sept

Your mission, Tom Cruise, is to improve at interviews. And please keep sending the cakes

He risks his life for entertainment, but getting an anecdote out of him is a trickier matter. Happily, Cruise is no stranger to knuckling down and pulling off the impossible By now, we’ve grown used to watching Tom Cruise excel at everything he does. Running in films? The best. Risking his life in action scenes so preposterously dangerous that audiences need to have their sphincters manually unclenched with a crowbar? Absolutely, none better. Singlehandedly ensuring that theatrical exhibition didn’t go extinct after Covid? The man deserves all the praise in the world for that. But nobody is perfect. Live long enough and a few flaws will worm their way to the surface. This is as true for Tom Cruise as it is for anyone else. And while I realise that this might do me out of a cake this Christmas , the following really needs to be said: Tom Cruise isn’t very good at interviews. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Stuart Heritage16 Sept

Tom Cruise Says ‘I Have Nothing Against Netflix or TV’ and Rumors About Being Intense on Set Are True: ‘I Expect a Lot and I’m Upfront About It’

Tom Cruise told GQ magazine as part of a new cover story on the “Digger” star that rumors about him being intense on movie sets are true, and he warns his co-stars upfront about it before filming starts. Movies are all about connecting “humanity,” the Oscar-nominated actor said, and he’s not afraid to be intense […]

VarietyVariety•Zack Sharf15 Sept