Cast Of DIGGER Built Characters Together, Sandra Huller Says
The two leads describe a rehearsal-first, ensemble-based method rather than the usual individual preparation, which is the kind of process detail that rarely surfaces while a film is still in theaters.
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Sandra Huller and Riz Ahmed, key cast members of Tom Cruise's film DIGGER, described in a remote interview how the whole ensemble built its characters together. Huller plays Digger's younger sister Emma and Ahmed the scientist Ganesh. Huller said she worked from the outside in, using costume and wig, while Ahmed said the cast went straight into rehearsal after receiving the script.
The remote interview, given while DIGGER is in theaters nationwide, turned on process rather than plot. Huller said she started from the outside rather than the inner life of the role, leaning on costume and wig and on the tone the whole film was aiming for. Ahmed described workshops with the full cast, where rehearsal began right after the script arrived and became the preparation period itself, with filming following immediately.
Both called the film bold and funny, and Huller said she was drawn less to inhabiting its world than to talking about and analyzing it.
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