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Originally Posted by bronco67
If they were going to cast someone who looks just like Wesley Snipes, why not cast Wesley Snipes? He still looks the same. He's probably an actual vampire.
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This was trending on Reddit today... had to cgi him opening his eyes because dude was so difficult he wouldn't come out of his trailer to do it
https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetail...d_dificulties/
Patton Oswalt about Snipes "He refused to answer to anything but "Blade." And spoke in the first third person to everyone on set, like, "Get Blade some coffee. Or "Blade is going to his trailer."
He spent whole shooting days smoking weed in his trailer. He would outright refuse to be on set during some of his scenes, so you'll notice that a lot of the "conversation" scenes show Snipes by himself, then it cuts to the rest of the group, because they had to film it separately.
Apparently, they even had to adjust the writing to just exclude him when he wouldn't show up for certain scenes, which is why it seems like the supporting characters have a ton of screentime.
Towards the end of production, he refused to come to work if the current director was still on the project, the studio wouldn't fire him, so they shot the rest of the movie without him.
He also made physical threats toward Ryan Reynolds, Patton Oswalt, and the director... Snipes was basically blacklisted from Hollywood after that movie for his behavior"