Riz Ahmed praises Tom Cruise's on-set dedication on Digger

Riz Ahmed praised Tom Cruise's on-set dedication while working on Alejandro G. Iñárritu's upcoming film Digger, Gamesradar reports.

Iñárritu, who directed Birdman and The Revenant, is behind Digger, which follows Cruise as a man who unleashed a disaster and strives to redeem himself. In a Collider interview Ahmed kept plot details quiet but said, "Honestly, there’s nothing like that experience I've ever had before, just because of how motivated, focused, hardworking, and inspiring Tom Cruise is on set. The energy he has and the positivity is crazy. It's like nothing I've ever seen before," and added, "Then Alejandro, the attention to detail, the vision, the ambition of it, as well, every day is just like, 'Wow, this is kind of nuts.'"

Ahmed also described watching cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki at work, saying, "He uses grays, and he doesn't just have one kind of gray. He has, like, 16 or 10 different shades of gray that he puts up to reflect and create different nuances. Just the level of craft and attention to detail is crazy. It just makes you want to bring your best to the table. It's inspiring. It's intense, though. It's definitely very intense." The film, which also features Jesse Plemons, Emma D'Arcy, John Goodman and Sandra Hüller, is due in theaters on October 2; Ahmed said he tried to keep specifics hush-hush in the interview.

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Culture, Riz Ahmed, Tom Cruise, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Emmanuel Lubezki, Digger