I have a whole other side that has yet to be seen on screen.
Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.
Wesley practices Capoeira, a Brazilian martial arts.
Wesley's mother is named Marian.
Wesley is a 5th Degree Black Belt in Karate.
Wesley insisted that the role of "Mimi" (played by Ming-Na), his character's wife in the film One Night Stand (1997), be played by an Asian woman in order to "push the boundaries of racial-sexual taboos." Snipes' character, "Max", is a sucessful Black commercial director who has an extramarital affair with an attractive blonde (Natassja Kinski).
In Wesley's big action film, Passenger 57(1992) you see him reading a book on the plane. The book is The Art of War which is the same title as a movie that he starred in years later, though unrelated to it.
Wesley's apartment was destroyed by the collapse of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. He happened to have been delayed at the gym where he was working out, otherwise he would have been home at that moment.
Wesley's father retired from United States Air Force Reserve's 315AW Charleston Air Force Base April 1998 with the rank of MSGT.
Wesley's salary statistics: Blade: Trinity (2004) $13,000,000 The Fan (1996) $7,000,000
Wesley Snipes: ( On why he loves the sport of boxing) I love the idea of the man to man, against one another. I like that. I don't know why.
Wesley Snipes: I have a great deal of fun playing Blade. The lifestyle of it, the controlled rebelliousness, is wonderful to me. And it's therapeutic, too. A role like this lets you vent.
Wesley Snipes: Certain roles are more challenging than others, but I haven't come across one yet that I can't tackle.
Wesley Snipes: (His reference on marriage) I don't understand the mandate of being together forever. The idea that you should do that is wrong. It makes us slaves to a societal mandate. You can still love, but it doesn't mean you have to be tethered to the flesh.
Wesley is 5'10" (1.78 m) tall.
Wesley appeared in the Michael Jackson video for the song "Bad."
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