Dark-skinned Black guys are considered more of a threat. And you put the dark-skinned Black guy in action, people can't separate the two. A producer might say, 'What happens if Wesley gets upset? He's a martial artist, s, he might snap and kick my ass! But chatter about Snipes' on-set behavior quickly became the least of his problems. Suddenly, Passenger 57 was Inmate The actor says 28 months in a northern Pennsylvania federal prison brought him clarity — and a common thread in the "many, many, many" acting opportunities that awaited him upon his release in The clown was a serial killer — but he used to be a lawyer!
When they discover him, of course he's locked up. I said, 'What do they think, that I'm an expert on this? Snipes has admitted he wasn't an "innocent bystander" in the crimes, but he's not fond of discussing the specifics and subsequent lost years. We're moving forward. We don't even think about that stuff anymore. The only ones who bring it up are journalists and people…what do they call them, trolls? The best way to change the conversation, then, is to give people something else to talk about.
With those prison scripts collecting dust, Snipes started his return to the screen slowly — his own choice, he says — highlighted by a reunion with Spike Lee for the little-seen Chi-Raq , as well as a forgettable nine episodes on the short-lived NBC procedural The Player , and a meta appearance in the geezer action flick The Expendables 3. Enter Eddie Murphy — like Snipes, he was looking for a bounce-back after some lean years. And he just cracked it out of the fing park.
Oh yeah, White Men Can't Jump. Oh yeah, Major League. Brewer and Murphy were so impressed that they cast Snipes, who originally auditioned for 's Coming to America , in the long-awaited sequel, Coming 2 America , which broke streaming records for Amazon Prime Video earlier this year.
Snipes once again delivered big laughs, this time as the eccentric African dictator General Izzi. The steady stream of celebrated work evokes a certain word, which Snipes prefers not to use. True Story is part of that next chapter. The seven-episode series stars Kevin Hart as Kid, a famous comedian who returns home to Philadelphia and reunites with his dependent older brother, Carlton Snipes.
The night goes horribly wrong and could cost both of them everything. He's a guy who carries with him a life lived. He also arrived with dramatic bona fides that comedy rock star Hart aspires to. Snipes, who admits to initially thinking the series was going for a Curb Your Enthusiasm -like tone, recalls telling Hart, "I don't know if you can handle the drama.
When I come, I come correct. We're not coming to pull punches. Of course, we're talking about the titular vampire-slaying superhero in Blade. Despite only receiving mediocre critical reviews , the film was a massive success, spawning a pair of sequels and cementing Snipes as both a household name and bona fide action hero.
Unfortunately, this would all but mark the end of Snipes' career as a blockbuster Hollywood star, as he'd ultimately follow up a brief break from acting with a whole slew of bad movies, a string of poor legal decisions, and pages upon pages of negative press.
After the commercial success of Blade and having received his star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, Snipes took a couple of years off. Unfortunately, his return wasn't particularly triumphant—and the start of the 21st century would prove to be the beginning of the end for the actor and producer.
The film proved to be a massive failure, both critically and commercially , and Snipes never found himself another winner. Guillermo del Toro's assistance on Blade 2 , however, almost brought Snipes back from the grave, but both ZigZag and Undisputed dug the hole even deeper. According to Variety , Snipes alleged that Blade: Trinity 's director, screenplay, and supporting cast were all approved without his express consent, which violated his contract.
He also claimed writer-director David Goyer made racist remarks regarding Snipes' professionalism and refused to punish a crew member who wore a racist T-shirt while filming.
Legal battle aside, the filming of Blade: Trinity was truly a disaster of epic proportions. He wouldn't come out of his trailer, and he would smoke weed all day Then I remember one day on the set—they let everyone pick their own clothes—there was one black actor who was also kind of a club kid. And he wore this shirt with the word "Garbage" on it in big stylish letters.
It was his shirt. And Wesley came down to the set, which he only did for close-ups. Everything else was done by his stand-in. I only did one scene with him. But he comes on and goes, "There's only one other black guy in the movie, and you make him wear a shirt that says 'Garbage?
For his part, Snipes pushed back on Oswalt's version of events in a interview. In addition to calling him a racist, Snipes actually asked director David Goyer to quit, midway through production.
You're detrimental to this movie. We've got all your close-ups, and we could shoot the rest with your stand-in. And he would sign each Post-it note 'From Blade. Around the same time that Snipes filed a lawsuit against New Line Cinema and those involved in the production of Blade: Trinity , the actor also filed a lawsuit against the city of New York.
According to People , Snipes claimed that New York City had no jurisdiction to arrest him in the matter regarding an Indiana woman's claims that he fathered her child.
The woman, whom Snipes referred to as "mentally ill crack addict," allegedly made similar claims against other celebrities. Snipes also claimed to have never met the woman, and the whole ordeal was detrimental to his reputation—with even Saturday Night Live having fun with the story.
The paternity case against Snipes was ultimately dismissed when a DNA test proved another man to be the child's father. Snipes responded by stating outside the courtroom, "The good Lord says 'Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor. The prosecution blamed Snipes for following the advice of both his accountant and another firm anti-tax proponent. Snipes, who had already paid millions of dollars in taxes, was sentenced to three years in Pennsylvania's McKean Federal Correctional Institution, before being transferred to the New York Community Corrections Office for home confinement.
With the IRS breathing down his neck and big-time movie projects looking slimmer by the day, Snipes' people tried to arrange a celebrity fight between the actor and Joe Rogan, as a means of grabbing some fast cash.
I said whatever, let's just do it. Though both Snipes and Rogan were eager to throw down in an epic, pay-per-view celebrity martial arts match, the fight never happened. Still, Rogan is confident he would've emerged victorious. I'm gonna get a hold of him, and I'm gonna squeeze the expletive out of him, and they're gonna give me a lot of money, and he's probably not even gonna get hurt. Snipes decided he had enough, and filed a lawsuit against the government's tax collection agency.
Snipes argued that the IRS was just arbitrarily throwing out figures in an effort to collect as much money as possible—which directly contradicts their " Fresh Start" program. Created in , the program is supposed to assist those with feeling the burden of financial hardship resolve their tax issues in a manner which is mutually beneficial to both the taxpayer and the government Anyone who's ever had to pay a large tax bill can probably empathize with Snipes' efforts to work out some sort of reduced arrangement with the IRS.
In November , a judge denied Snipes' petition to overturn the decision, citing an "inability to credibly document his assets. And you might have somebody who by day is a nuclear physicist and by night is a professional karaoke artist. Snipes has never been backward in coming forward.
I can sing. I can do graffiti. I can cook very well. People are less familiar with my forays into technology and telecommunications. Snipes has not done many interviews since his release from prison. Some old friends stood by him: Spike Lee cast him in his film Chi-Raq , an adaptation of the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata , and Sylvester Stallone hired him for The Expendables 3, playing a character newly released from jail after being banged up for tax evasion.
But now it looks as if he really is on his way back. Next he is appearing in Coming 2 America, the long-awaited sequel to the monster hit Coming to America, which again stars Murphy. We can do it hard or we can do it easeeeeey! How does he think his conviction affected his career? Not one bit. When he was 15, his mother moved them back to Florida, where he was born.
He went on to study drama at the State University of New York. In one of his first interviews, in , he talked about being arrested and falsely accused of stealing a car — when he protested, one of the police officers kneed him in the neck.
They did what was standard protocol in those days in Los Angeles. Snipes was accused of playing the race card. Meanwhile, last month the New York Times revealed that Donald Trump had paid no federal income tax in 11 of the 18 years its reporters investigated. Trump has never been charged with any crime, let alone convicted. He starts talking about his case. Now this is rare. Very unusual situation. Of course it was unfair.
I understand that very clearly now, having been away from my family and loved ones two and a half years. Did it make him reassess himself? Did he think he had been wrong and stupid? I made decisions. I accept the ramifications of those decisions. No one forced me to take that person as my accountant; no one forced me to take that person as my lawyer. No one forced me to believe what they were saying.
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