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Good Morning POU! This week we’ll take a look at the film career of Wesley Snipes! Let’s look at some of his most iconic and memorable characters!
Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962) is an American actor, director, film producer, martial artist and author. He formed a production company, Amen-Ra Films, in 1991, and a subsidiary, Black Dot Media, to develop projects for film and television. He has been training in martial arts since the age of 12, earning a 5th dan black belt in Shotokan Karate and 2nd dan black belt in Hapkido.
Wesley’s career began in 1986 with the film Wildcat. During the late 80s he also had roles in Streets of Gold, Critical Condition and Major League as hilarious character Willie Mays Hayes.
In Major League, Willie comes to camp uninvited and as a result his bed is removed from the camp to outside the field. Thinking he was cut already, to impress the coaches he comes out of nowhere to beat the other players in his pjs. Impressed, Lou Brown lets him stay in camp. There is one problem, though; Willie can’t hit very well. However, since Rachel, the owner of the Indians, wants the team to be as bad as possible, she had Willie stay. As the team improved, so did Willie, hitting better and stealing tons of times. He buys a pair of gloves for each base he steals, and hangs them up on the wall. Later on when the Cleveland Indians face the New York Yankees in the one game playoff he scores the winning run.
The defining role of this era for Wesley Snipes tho, has to be his performance as saxophone player Shadow Henderson in Spike Lee’s Mo Betta Blues.
