Warning: This article contains spoilers fromDeadpool & Wolverine.
“So I kind of resided that I was moving on from them, which is okay.
I did three of them, and I thought they turned out pretty good.
Wesley Snipes and Ryan Reynolds back together again, 20 years after ‘Blade: Trinity’.Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty
So we move on to other things, and bigger and better things, as well.”
It read, “I want to talk to you.”
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“I did not think it was possible,” Snipes recalls.
Wesley Snipes as Blade in ‘Blade: Trinity’.New Line
“I didn’t think we would be able to pull it off.
Let’s see what this is about,'” Snipes continues.
“He told me the idea…
Wesley Snipes as Blade, Ryan Reynolds as Hannibal King in ‘Blade: Trinity’.New Line
They said ‘yes’ and ‘it’s a go.’
‘If you’re in, we’re in.’
Here we are.”
But he attests the true challenge was getting back in Blade shape so he could wear the suit again.
“I wasn’t Blade ready, man.
I don’t walk around as Blade every day, you know what I mean?
With a trench coat and shades and fangs in my mouth.
We had to work out,” he says.
They’re not easy at all by any means.
Let’s ride!"
“I’m not tuned in that way.
So I thought, ‘Well, it’s a little over the top for me.’
But seeing him do it in this context [inDeadpool & Wolverine] made a lot of sense.
And seeing him do it and do it well, Ryan does something that most people can’t do.
Deadpool is Ryan Reynolds all day long.
So it was enjoyable.
It was enjoyable to work with him.
It was enjoyable to revisit.”
We haven’t spoke."
He does point toa statement he released in 2019after Ali’s casting was made official.
In it, he told “all the DAYWALKERS losing their minds right now " to “chillaaxx.”
Multiple writers and directors boarded the newBladeover the yearsonly to later part ways.
The most important thing for us is not rushing it and making the rightBlademovie.”
“It’s not the actor’s fault,” Snipes tells EW, sticking by Ali.
“There’s a lot more that goes on with pulling this Blade stuff off.”
You’re my man, though."
