By Angelique Jackson, Arushi Jacob
Warner Bros Tom Cruise had to dig deep for his latest starring role — pun intended.
“I have never had something that could challenge me in this way, and neither has Alejandro,” Cruise said, about starring in “Digger,” the black comedy from two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu (“Birdman,” “The Revenant”).
Described as “a comedy of catastrophic proportions,” the Warner Bros. film is Iñárritu’s first English-language film since “The Revenant.” Cruise stars as Digger Rockwell, sporting a thick Southern accent, a pot belly and thinning white hair (fashioned in an unconvincing combover) to play “the most powerful man in the world,” a billionaire whose company may have set off an ecological disaster that could also spark a nuclear war.
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