Tom Cruise looks unrecognizable in teaser for new comedy Digger

It’s impossible. Tom Cruise is teaming up with Oscar-winning “The Revenant” director Alejandro González Iñárritu – and in the new “Digger” teaser, the “Mission: Impossible” actor looks unrecognizable. In the first trailer for the upcoming comedy, Cruise, 63, is only shown in silhouette and from far away.His face isn’t revealed.

However, his hair in the movie is thinning and grey – a marked change from his typical full head of dark hair. Since Cruise has starred in action movies like the “Mission: Impossible” franchise well into his sixth decade, he hasn’t embraced aging, or playing characters who look or act like typical 60-something men.Instead, Cruise has been hanging off planes and riding motorcycles at the Olympics.

Playing a man who looks visibly older is a marked departure for the “Eyes Wide Shut” actor. It’s not without precedent, however.Cruise previously threw aside his vanity to play an overweight balding Harvey Weinstein-esque movie mogul in the 2008 Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr.

movie “Tropic Thunder.” In the trailer for “Digger,” Cruise wears cowboy boots and looks disheveled, strutting around carrying a shovel. He seems to dance with the shovel, crouching with it and walking along a fence.“Let’s f***ing go!,” Cruise captioned an X post revealing the teaser on Thursday.The movie poster reads: “A comedy of catastrophic proportions.”Little has been revealed about the film’s plot. González Iñárritu told Deadline at Cannes, “This is a wild comedy of catastrophic proportions.

It’s insane.He makes me laugh every day.

The range that I discovered working with Tom is unprecedented for me as a director.I was so fu–king impressed and happy.”The director also previously won an Oscar in 2015 for “The Revenant” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy, and in 2016 for “Birdman” starring Michael Keaton. This is his first English language movie since “The Revenant,” and his...