Sunday, September 27, 2026

Six Degrees of “Digger”: How Tom Cruise Wound Up in Taylor Swift’s Box at KC Chiefs Game, at Her Wedding, and on Kelce Brothers Podcast

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Now we know: it wasn’t just fate or coincidence that brought Tom Cruise to the Kansas City Chiefs game two weeks ago.

No, nothing is random in Tom’s life.

We all wondered why Tom was at Taylor and Travis’s wedding, right? Then he turned up in her box at the game?

Even crazier, Tom went on the Kelce Brothers podcast, where he talked about mom, apple pie, and how much he loves the movies.

Lip readers were working overtime trying to figure out what the heck Tom and Taylor were talking about? Scientology?

One lip reader picked up this line: “It’s the structure of the entire infrastructure of the audience that’s what I love in a positive way.”

But what connected all these odd events? How did Tom even know Taylor Swift?

I think we’ve got an answer.

Tonight, Taylor debuts her new video on the MTV Video Music Awards. It’s called “Patient Zero.”

Taylor directed it, but she didn’t “lens” it. She hired one of the best Oscar winning cinematographers in the world.

That would be Emmanuel Lubezki, aka “Chivo,” the man who gives Alejandro Gonzales Innraritu”s movies their special look. He sent Michael Keaton soaring in “Birdman” and got the Bear to dry hump Leo in “The Revenant.”

And guess who was the DP on Tom’s new movie, “Digger”? Why, it turns it was… Chivo!

It doesn’t take AI to figure out how all these things came about. That’s the structure of the infrastructure, kids.

Chivo has won 3 Oscars, kids. I’d love to know how much he charged Taylor for “Patient Zero.” But with her reported $2 billion, the sky was the limit!

When the video debuts tonight, “Patient Zero” will already have been number 1 on every platform since Friday morning. It’s had 14.7 million plays on Spotify.

What we don’t know is if Chivo worked on the other three new old songs Swift added to her “Showgirl” album. Chivo in “Cleveland”? “Babylon” “Pink Slipping”? He may have really found the golden goose with Taylor Swift!

We’ll all be watching tonight when “Patient Zero” tries to use Chivo as insurance!

PS Was Chivo at the garish MSG wedding, too? Probably. At least he was invited.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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