Tom Cruise was rarely out of prosthetics on his new movie, “Digger.” In fact, he rarely left the set. When he wasn’t on camera, he would sit on an apple box. To squeeze out more shooting time, Cruise, also a producer on the project, opted to sleep in his trailer. “He wasn’t going home during the week,” producer Mary Parent said. “He would go home on the weekends.” The result is one of the boldest roles of the actor’s career. In the film, Cruise, his face covered in prosthetics, portrays Digger Rockwell, a bombastic Texan oil baron, who causes a…

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