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| Reynolds Thinks Snipes Really Hated Him During 'Tr |
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| POSTED Saturday, December 18, 2004 12:10:58 PM |
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Ryan Reynolds looks around in the empty hotel room as if he thinks that the supernatural vampire killer is stalking him.
"Yeah, all that stuff in the movie where I was saying, 'He hates me doesn't he?' and all that, well, it's all true," deadpans the comic actor. "There was no kidding around on the set with Wesley Snipes."
Reynolds, who's known for his comedic roles like "Van Wilder," tells Zap2it.com that the third installment of the Marvel comic book movie, "Blade Trinity," was as scary while shooting it as it sometimes looks on film. Snipes recreates the role of Blade, the reluctant rogue vampire who hunts and kills other vampires and he reluctantly teams up with Nightstalkers -- Abigail, played by Jessica Biel, and Hannibal King, played by Reynolds.
"I guess it's the method acting things, but you only do one take with him, that's it," Reynolds says, still a bit cautious. "I'm not sure I ever really met Wesley Snipes."
Although he's the title character and is listed as the producer of this third film, Snipes isn't doing press, but Zap2it has confirmed his stoic demeanor on the film with fellow actors Biel, Parker Posey and director David S. Goyer, who wrote all three "Blade" films and directed the first and third. (Guillermo Del Toro directed the second.)
"Wesley was scary, it was intimidating, he was Blade, he did not say much to me," says Biel. "We had a good relationship on screen, but we did not become friends. He had parties, I did not attend."
Goyer, who was at a loss to explain Snipes, says he cast Reynolds because he was the polar opposite of Snipes. "You couldn't find two people more dissimilar, both on screen and off, they were like oil and water."
So, Reynolds tried ad-libbing a few times by complaining about Snipes/Blade, it often ended up in the movie. Blade throws a guy off a ledge at one point and Reynolds taunts, "You ever think about getting in touch with that inner child?"
a It was also Goyer's brainstorm to pair up Reynolds with Posey, who's a staple of the Christopher Guest comedies such as "Best in Show" and "Waiting for Guffman" and plays a former girlfriend of Reynolds' character who tries to turn him into a vampire. At one point, Posey plays a dominatrix interrogator to Reynolds. It's both frightening and funny, and it's mostly improvised.
"It's hard to figure out how much is improvised on the spot, but I could have shot that interrogation scene for weeks," laughs Goyer, admitting that many jokes came over late-night drinks with Reynolds.
"He's like my little brother, I loved picking on him," adds Posey. "I never thought I'd get so much into an action film like this, but he made it a hoot the whole way."
Reynolds gushes equally about her, saying, "I've never felt so happy to work with somebody in my entire life. It was all sort of like a dance just to have somebody that was able to go toe-to-toe and step-for-step every moment."
Some stuff will have to be held for the DVD, though, and Reynolds adds, "Some things should never be allowed for public consumption, like when Parker and I get in a slap fight like two little girls. There are going to be lots of outtakes."
Some of those outtakes no doubt will involve stunts that Biel and Reynolds did during the filming.
"I got to have some cool weapons, but was on a diet to get my arms to look like that," says Biel, who admits to a six-day-a-week workout with a diet requiring no sugar, flour, dairy or salt. She worked out regularly with Reynolds and when the film was over, they binged on pizza and doughnuts.
"They let us do all the stunts except when we went through the glass," Biel says.
And Reynolds not only tussles with Snipes, but battles with a character played by professional wrestler Triple H, Paul Levesque, in one scene.
"As much as he tried to be gentle with me, I was in pain. I had to have Advil for breakfast many mornings, sitting in a bathtub full of ice and moaning," says Reynolds.
Despite the pain, and the possibility that the Blade series may be over, Goyer -- who just co-wrote the "Batman Begins" script -- and Reynolds, who just completed "The Amityville Horror" remake, and Biel, who is starting the film "Elizabethtown," all say they would be up for branching off a "Nightstalker" series of films. It depends on how fans feel after the Dec. 7 wide release of the film.
"It's time for the franchise to continue with someone who has a bit of a sense of humor, who's hip, and looks like he's having fun," says Reynolds -- and then he looks around the room again, to see if Blade is listening.
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