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 do it faster.
\n\nSpeaking on Travis and Jason Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast on Friday, Cruise peeled back the curtain into his transformation — which included sporting a fat suit — and how he made it “more efficient.”
\n\n“The first time we did the makeup, it took six hours, OK?” Cruise told the Kelces, adding that he started doing the mental math and knew that wasn’t going to work with his schedule.
\n\n“I gotta sleep at least six [hours]. They keep saying I need more… but OK, that’s 12,” he continued. “Now, we have 12-hour days filming. So now that’s six hours on, two hours off with the makeup.”
\n\nTo streamline the process, Cruise said he showed up with a chalkboard and started timing how long it took to put each prosthetic on.
\n\n“I had a guy there with a stopwatch and I’m like, ‘OK, you…
Original source: https://variety.com/