Tom Cruise at 64: ‘I’m so grateful. It’s amazing to be

LOS ANGELES – “I’m so grateful. It’s kind of amazing to be here at this age,” said Tom Cruise in a recent press preview event at the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank. The superstar, who turned 64 last July 3, talked about what may be one of the most important films in his career, which

LOS ANGELES – “I'm so grateful. It's kind of amazing to be here at this age,” said Tom Cruise in a recent press preview event at the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank. The superstar, who turned 64 last July 3, talked about what may be one of the most important films in his career, which has spanned four decades.

On this afternoon inside the Steven J. Ross Theater, the superstar sat down and openly shared his enthusiasm for “Digger,” his first film with Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Cruise rarely discusses – and with such passion – a film that will not open until late this year. But first, Iñárritu, who won several Oscar and Golden Globe awards and is acclaimed for his films, including “Amores Perros,” “Babel,” “Birdman” and “The Revenant,” appeared on the screen and explained why he could not attend the event in person in Burbank: “I am really sorry I couldn't be there personally with you and Tom, but as you can see, I am at the sound stage in London, finishing the sound mix for ‘Digger.’

It's a very delicate process, which demands my whole attention. ‘The film needed Tom’ “And you are about to meet the most charismatic catastrophe you have ever seen. It was just after ‘The Revenant,’ when I had an idea, not a script, not a film, just a relentless recurring obsession that has endured through all these wild years.

I knew who this character was. “I knew how he spoke, how he survived, how he seduced reality into agreeing with him. But it took me 10 years to do this film, because I wasn't looking for a story.

I was looking for the right way of saying it. “And it's absurd, it's dangerous, but certainly comedic, because the

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source of great comedy is tragedy. People often ask me why I chose Tom to play Digger. To me, that's like asking somebody why you drink water when you are thirsty? Because it's what you need. “The film needed Tom. We wanted to work together since the beginning of the century. I admired him as an actor for years, and that wasn't a surprise for me. The surprise was discovering that the human being behind the actor was just as extraordinary as the performances I will see throughout his career. ‘It took me 40 years to become this character’ “The transformation he went through was astonishing. ‘Alejandro, it took me 40 years to become this character,’ he told me once. And I think we both know what it means to carry an entire career into a single moment like this. We both knew that throughout our journeys, we had never done anything even close to this. “Making this film demanded everything...

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