00:00Tom Cruise looked handsome as ever at the launch event for his new movie, Digger.
00:04It's a stark contrast to the A-list actor's shocking appearance
00:08in the film's first trailer that has everyone talking.
00:21Yep, that's Tommy Boy.
00:24Gray hair and prosthetics transformed the normally svelte 64-year-old action star
00:28into a southern billionaire oil tycoon.
00:31He looks f***ing insane, man, tweeted one fan.
00:35Hard to believe it's even Tom Cruise, that's just some other guy, wrote another.
00:39Almost thought it was Walton Goggins for a second.
00:42Cruise looks unrecognizable here.
00:44Oops, the White Lotus star caught a stray on that one.
00:47Other ex-users quipped,
00:49The biggest plot twist?
00:50Tom Cruise playing an age-appropriate role.
00:53And Tom Cruise on some Mike Myers s***.
00:56Brutal.
00:57That said, he does sort of look like the Austin Powers character Goldmember.
01:02Meanwhile, other snark that Cruise's performance appears to be a blatant attempt to finally get the man an Oscar.
01:08Last year, he picked up an honorary Academy Award for his lifelong contributions to cinema.
01:13Although he has yet to nab a little gold man for acting.
01:16It'll certainly help that Digger is directed by four-time Oscar winner Alejandro Iñárritu.
01:22At a Q&A event for the film in Los Angeles, Cruise said the film, out October 2nd,
01:27is the most unique project he's tackled in his career.
01:30I have never had something that could challenge me in this way and neither has Alejandro when we went in,
01:35ever.
01:36When you see this film, it's totally original.
01:39Iñárritu said Cruise was his top pick for the lead role and added at the event,
01:43The film needed Tom.
01:45We wanted to work together since the beginning of the century.
01:48I admired him as an actor for years and that wasn't a surprise for me.
01:52The surprise was discovering that the human being behind the actor was just as extraordinary as the performances I will
01:58see throughout his career.
02:00In April at CinemaCon, Cruise told the audience it took 40 years for him to be able to portray the
02:05many layers of his Digger character,
02:07calling the satirical film wild and funny.
02:11But for anyone who remembers his turn as Les Goodman in 2008's Tropic Thunder,
02:16it might all feel like a little deja vu.
