Ryan Reynolds has never been one to hold back on improvisation and his sardonic humor that borders dangerously close to that of his on-screen character, Wade Wilson aka the Merc With a Mouth, has often spilled over into the roles that he plays, even outside of Deadpool. However, on one particular occasion, the actor’s comically endearing personality managed to rub the wrong way on one of his co-stars on a Marvel movie set.
Ryan Reynolds & Wesley Snipes Join Forces in Blade III
Way before his debut in Foxverse’s 2009 film, X-Men Origins: Wolverine as Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds had appeared in another Marvel comics live-action adaptation, Blade: Trinity, in 2004. The early 2000s movie, Blade, starring Wesley Snipes as the vampire-hunting protagonist had stretched over the course of three films, with the threequel finale starring Reynolds as Hannibal King.
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As a member of the Nightstalkers, the actor’s character was set to appear alongside Wesley Snipes’ Blade and Jessica Biel’s Abigail Whistler as the trio prepares to take down the main antagonist, Dracula, whose awakening in the modern-day world threatens the survival of the human race.
Ryan Reynolds Angers Wesley Snipes in Blade: Trinity
To be working alongside the Wesley Snipes-helmed franchise meant that the cast had to understand how important the Marvel project was to him and how dedicated Snipes was to bring the story to the big screens. As such, it was often found that the lead’s method process whenever he stepped onto the sets of Blade III, even when the cameras weren’t rolling, was too stoic and emotionally detached, almost like a shadow of his onscreen persona.
Of course, Ryan Reynolds being who he is wouldn’t let an opportunity pass by and had to constantly attempt to get Wesley Snipes to break character whenever they shared a frame. After a point, however, even as Snipes’s composure remained unfaltering in the face of Ryan Reynolds’s constant jabs of humor, the former grew frustrated with the latter’s onscreen improvisations.
The looks of volatile animosity grew so strong at one point that during a scene, Reynolds simply blurts out, “He hates me, doesn’t he?” to which Jessica Biel replies in the affirmative. The scene which was added in the final cut was a complete improvisation and Reynolds later admitted in an interview, “I’m just saying this about my relationship as Ryan Reynolds to this guy, and it works.”
Off-screen Controversies Plague the Blade Trilogy Finale
The impaling looks from Wesley Snipes directed at Ryan Reynolds were not the only thing haunting the sets of Blade: Trinity. Even as the episode with Reynolds was more tangible because of the latter’s persistent annoyance, the off-screen controversies haunting the sets of the film made headlines at the time of the film’s shooting.
Reports spoke of Wesley Snipes’ unco-operative mannerisms on the set which not only led to rising tension between the actor and the cast and crew of the film but also involved some trouble with the production when Snipes refused to follow a certain section of the script, or act out a scene, and later sued the production for withholding pay when filming was over.
Marvel is currently working on a Blade reboot with Mahershala Ali set to portray the lead.
Source: IGN
