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10. Wesley Snipes Would Only Shoot Close-Ups & Dialogue - Blade: Trinity

It's fair to say that the troubled production of Blade: Trinity is much more interesting than the film itself, as demonstrated by an hilarious report from Patton Oswalt about Wesley Snipes' disruptive behaviour on the set of the threequel.

Snipes bristled with writer-director David S. Goyer throughout shooting, to the extent that the two would ultimately only communicate through Post-It notes.

Plus, unless he was required to be on set to shoot a close-up or a dialogue scene, the actor spent most of his time confined to his trailer smoking weed.

This resulted in Snipes' stunt double reportedly performing a larger-than-expected volume of the actor's shots, even those which weren't action-centric or necessitated a stunt double.

This was corroborated by a journalist who visited the film's set, adding, "Not only was he not prepared to help his fellow actors during their close-ups, but if the shot involved anything less than a front-on close-up, he called for a stand-in to do the acting for him...It means Wesley Snipes' stand-in was in more of Blade: Trinity than Snipes himself was."

Snipes wasn't a whole lot more co-operative even when he was on set, though, as a scene in which the actor had to open his eyes while laying on an autopsy table famously had to be achieved with CGI after he refused to open his eyes.