Undercover Cruise

Tom Cruise donned disguises to learn how to hide in the crowd for a new film.

12:30 14 June 2004

Tom Cruise donned disguises to learn how to hide in the crowd for a new film.

The man with the million-dollar grin wore a FedEx uniform in an effort not be noticed while researching his new film "Collateral".

Cruise is set to play a contract killer in the move in what will be his first role as a bad guy.

Vincent - the role Cruise is set to play - will be a grey-haired, grey-suited stalker and contract killer, according to The Sun.

The character is meant to be an expert at blending into the background, and Cruise has been training to play the role.

He said: "We had the wardrobe, I got my mission - go in and deliver this package to this place. Then go buy a coffee and sit down and just talk. It was a great acting exercise. I'm a very good stalker now, excellent."

Michael Mann, director of "Collateral" added: "The objective was simply to be somebody else. Tom could put on a beard, sunglasses and a baseball hat and someone still goes, 'There's Tom Cruise'.

"The guy he was delivering the package to was a clerk in a liquor store. And no, he didn't notice it was Tom."

Collateral is set to open in the UK on September 17th.