Everyone loves Wesley Snipes. The actor, who served out his 3-year sentence on failure to file taxes was released in 2013 and is back in the big screen, where he belongs. He’s in Expendables 3 with Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jason Statham which opens today. Snipes says he’s very happy to be back.
“Whenever you can do what you love to do and do it with some of your friends,and make new friends at the same time, it’s a wonderful thing,” he told the Tom Joyner Morning Show. “I got a chance to work with some of the best of the best in this particular game. “
Snipes plays a character called Doc in the action movie which is classic good guys against the bad gays fare and has become somewhat of a franchise. Snipes didn’t mind a few jokes thrown in at his expense.
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“Everyone’s going to joke about that,” Snipes says of his tax conviction. “I’m going to have to deal with that for the next couple of years, maybe until I do another Blade or something like that.”
Fans of the Snipes’ vampire killer series hope another one is on the way, but Snipes says there’s nothing confirmed yet.
“You never know, you never know. I hear that they’re working on a reboot of it, and there’s a lot of enthusiasm, at least from the fan base.” When asked if Blade was his favorite role, he says it was one of them along with Franklin in the TV movie adaptation of Terry McMillan’s book Disappearing Acts.
When asked directly about his tax conviction and what he would do differently Snipes says that the public perception – that he didn’t want to pay his taxes – is incorrect.
“That’s a presumption that’s not really true to the facts and I think they’ll will be an opportunity to talk about that but I don’t know if this is the time. There was an offer to pay on the table. We put the offer up. “
Snipes says his life now is very, very good. In fact, it’s divine, in all the aspects of that word.
“Everything is extremely good. It’s a divinely blessing and the Good Lord is always in the life and the soldiers and the angels and the cherubim are opening up the pathway.”
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.
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