‘There’s nothing phoney about Tom Cruise!’ Shea Whigham teases best Mission: Impossible yet
Shea Whigham has teased ‘Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning’ will be “amazing” becasue Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie are fully commited to making the upcoming blockbuster a cinematic marvel.
Shea Whigham has promised ‘Mission: Impossible' fans that 'The Final Reckoning’ will be “amazing”.
The 55-year-old actor will be reprising his role as United States Intelligence Community enforcer Jasper Briggs - who was introduced in 2023’s ‘Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning’ - in the upcoming sequel, and has now stressed the movie won’t disappoint because of Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie’s commitment to the project.
In an interview with MovieWeb, Whigham said: “I think it's going to be amazing. I really do, because of [Tom] and McQuarrie there ... I've got to be careful. I can't give away too much. I get in trouble. I've gotten in trouble already.
“I think one of the great things is just to be around these guys that love cinema. I mean, Tom, there's nothing phoney about him when he says how much he loves and he wants people to come to see movies.
“There’s a reason why they’re getting better. Each ‘Mission’ gets better.”
Whigham previously admitted he begged McQuarrie, 56, to let him share a scene with Cruise’s Impossible Mission Force (IMF) agent Ethan Hunt in ‘The Final Reckoning’.
Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter in June, the ‘Lake George’ star said: “I said to Christopher McQuarrie on (‘The Final 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 get a chance to get in there.’ And he delivered.”
The ‘Boardwalk Empire’ actor was invited to dinner by Cruise, 62, after they had worked on the scene and the Hollywood icon explained that production was far from complete.
Whigham said: “We did this scene between Tom and myself, and then Tom said, 'We're going to go out to dinner.' So we went out to dinner when I was done, and then Tom said, 'Do you realise that we come out one year from today? And it's going to be a sprint to finish the f****** thing.'
“What he's doing now, people are going to be floored. He wants to make this one like an adventure film, and he and McQuarrie have an idea of what they want to do with it. So it's going to be amazing.”
Whigham isn’t the only ‘Mission: Impossible’ star to comment on ‘The Final Reckoning’, as Simon Pegg - who plays secret agent Benji Dunn in the spy series - recently insisted the upcoming blockbuster would be the “best one” in the franchise.
The ‘Hot Fuzz’ star said during an appearance on the ‘Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum’ podcast last month: “I have just finished shooting. I have one day left of pick-ups to do. I've seen it. It's bananas. It's absolutely bananas.”
The ‘Shaun of the Dead’ actor added his co-star Cruise had worked on some huge stunts for the movie that will leave audiences speechless.
He continued: “What he does in this one, it boggles the mind. I think this one is the best one ever. And I'm not just saying that because it's like, ‘Oh, you've got to say that.’ It is going to be great.”
‘Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning’ - which will also star Haley Atwell, Vanessa Kirby, Hannah Waddingham and Ving Rhames - picks up immediately after the events of ‘Dead Reckoning’ as Ethan and his team attempt to stop an all-powerful artificial intelligence known as The Entity before it’s too late for global society.
