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Topics: Celebrity, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Deadpool, Deadpool and Wolverine
Gerrard Kaonga
Topics: Celebrity, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Deadpool, Deadpool and Wolverine
Deadpool and Wolverine is delighting fans all over the world but it's not just Deadpool's MCU debut and fourth wall-breaking antics that has people talking.
Wesley Snipes has smashed some pretty impressive records after his appearance in the film shocked viewers all over the world - if they were able to avoid the spoilers that is.
Deadpool and Wolverine joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe was inevitable and the film makes plenty of jokes about the 'merc with a mouth' no longer being tied to Fox.
Unfortunately, this gets a little hard to talk about without getting into spoiler territory, so you have been warned.
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The flick is filled with fan-pleasing cameos, as expected when superhero movies deal with multiple timelines and different universes.
From Henry Cavill to Jennifer Garner and Chris Evans, the film was stacked with loveable - and forgotten - Marvel characters.
But one that really did catch fans off guard was the appearance of Wesley Snipes.
No the actor didn’t appear as himself (although that would be on brand for the Deadpool movies) but he returned as one of the superheroes that helped make the genre what it is today.
Yup, before X-Men and your Spider-Man, there was Snipes' character, Blade, the day walker vampire hunter who didn’t come to play around.
It is this appearance that contributed to Snipes breaking the Guinness World record.
Snipes beat out Hugh Jackman to clinch the record for 'longest career as a live-action Marvel character', having first appeared as Blade back in 1998 for his first film.
As well as this, he also beat out another super hero actor who didn’t make an appearance in the latest Deadpool film.
Snipes beat out Alfred Molina, the actor who played Doc Ock in Sam Raimi’s second Spider-Man film, for the 'longest gap between character appearances in Marvel films.'
Snipes last reprised the role in his third film in 2004’s Blade: Trinity, beating out Molina who recently returned as Doctor Octopus in 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home.
In a recent interview in late July, Snipes detailed how Reynolds convinced him to come back into the role.
“Over the years, we've had very interesting conversations, some of them very substantive and some of them not,” he told Entertainment Weekly.
"So I kind of resided that I was moving on from them, which is okay.”
He continued: "I thought it didn't make sense to me, but [when] you get a call from Ryan Reynolds out of the blue after 20 years, you go, 'Okay, I got to take this call. Let's see what this is about,'
"He told me the idea ... They said 'yes' and 'it's a go.' 'If you're in, we're in.' Here we are."