Legendary actor is once again on a mission to save the world — but this time he's playing for laughs — in the latest film from Alejandro G. Iñárritu
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Source BURBANK, Calif. — When he steps in front of the camera, Tom Cruise wants two things: To challenge himself and to give audiences a moviegoing experience they’ll be talking about long after they leave the theatre. Ever since booking his first major role in 1981’s military school drama Taps, Cruise, now 64, has worked to channel a lifelong obsession with movies by working with influential directors like Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Olivier Stone, Brian De Palma, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, Michael Mann, J. J. Abrams, Doug Liman, Robert Redford, Sydney Pollack, Joseph Kosinski, Christopher McQuarrie and more. Cruise has always sought out risky roles. Later this year, he’ll push the envelope again with Alejandro G. Iñárritu‘s Digger, a dramedy that casts the actor as Digger Rockwell, a brash billionaire who frantically tries to save the world after one of his...
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