Wesley Snipes on art, excellence and life after prison: 'I hope I came out a better person'

By Simon Hattenstone

 

Wesley Snipes: ‘I was not just an actor for hire. I had authority to dictate, to decide. That was a hard concept for a lot of people.’ Photograph: Jens Koch/Camera Press/Picture Press

 

Wesley Snipes seemed to have everything in the 90s and early 00s. He was a film star, gifted, gorgeous, chiselled from top to bottom.

 

Box office gold.

 

There seemed to be no genre he couldn’t star in: thrillers (detective Thomas Flanigan in King of New York), action movies (drug baron Nino Brown in New Jack City), sports comedies (basketball hustler Syd Deane in White Men Can’t Jump), LGBT comedies (drag queen Noxeema Jackson in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar), arthouse romances (commercials director Max Carlyle in One Night Stand) and dramas (architect Flipper Purify in Jungle Fever).

 

In 2004, his salary was a reported $13m for producing and starring in the third Blade blockbuster, Blade: Trinity. Snipes could not have been flying much higher. And then he fell.

 

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/02/wesley-snipes-on-art-excellence-and-life-after-prison-i-hope-i-came-out-a-better-person

Snipes is a real character. He has alot to say in this interview, and I have always been fond of him as an actor, and as a man. The reality is, he had the wrong accountant. Trump likely committed the same crimes, but had the right accountant and lawyers. And being black did not help either. He did not deserve a prison sentence. 

 

Glad to see him getting a second start. He is talented and a great screen presence. 

How incredible is it to be jailed for any money related crime ? Europe is a lot safer about this...

 

 

10 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Snipes is a real character. He has alot to say in this interview, and I have always been fond of him as an actor, and as a man. The reality is, he had the wrong accountant. Trump likely committed the same crimes, but had the right accountant and lawyers. And being black did not help either. He did not deserve a prison sentence. 

 

Glad to see him getting a second start. He is talented and a great screen presence. 

Never a chance missed to drag President Trump into a non-related article. Try again.

On 11/3/2020 at 8:53 PM, Benmart said:

Never a chance missed to drag President Trump into a non-related article. Try again.

I thought exactly the same. Twerp