‘Digger’ Trailer at CinemaCon Shows Tom Cruise Transformed Into Insane, Cat-Loving Billionaire With a Big Belly, a Comb Over and a Thick Southern Accent

By Rebecca Rubin

Rebecca Rubin

Senior Film and Media Reporter

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Tom Cruise ventured to CinemaCon to offer a deliciously demented first look at “Digger,” his new movie with director Alejandro González Iñárritu.

“It took 40 years for me to be able to put on the boots of Digger Rockwell,” Cruise said before introducing the new trailer.

And this is definitely Cruise as you’ve never seen him before. In the outrageous comedy, he sports a thick Southern accent (think Ross Perot, but more excitable), a beer belly and thinning white hair that’s been manipulated into an unconvincing combover. He’s an oil baron whose company may have set off an ecological disaster that could also spark a nuclear war. John Goodman is an ailing U.S. president who implores Cruise to fix the mess he’s unleashed.

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