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Shea Whigham requested a scene with Tom Cruise in ‘Mission: Impossible 8’. The 55-year-old actor reprises his role as Jasper Briggs in the eighth movie in the action franchise and explained that he urged director Christopher McQuarrie to include a scene between his character and Cruise’s Ethan Hunt. Shea told The Hollywood Reporter: “I said to Christopher McQuarrie on (‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning’): ‘I don’t want a bigger trailer. I don’t want more money. I don’t want better catering. I just want one scene between Tom and I, where you, McQ, write it like ‘The Usual Suspects’, and we …