Almost anything you can think of has a Guinness World Record, and it’s always interesting to see how geek culture interacts with it. After seeing Spider-Man: No Way Home almost 300 times, Florida resident Ramiro Alanis broke the record for the most cinema presentations attended by the same person. Deadpool and Wolverine has now broken two records.
Among the several cameos in Deadpool & Wolverine was Snipes’ Blade. To fight Cassandra Nova (Emma Corrin) and her mutants, he teams up with the title characters as well as fellow Marvel heroes Elektra (Jennifer Garner), Gambit (Channing Tatum), and X-23 (Dafne Keen). Additionally, Chris Evans returned to a previous role—no, it wasn’t Captain America. In the movie, the actor had a fleeting cameo as Johnny Storm, one of the Fantastic Four heroes.
With Blade’s unexpected cameo in the third act of the movie, Wesley Snipes holds the record for the longest run of any live-action Marvel actor. The actor has surpassed Hugh Jackman, who was once predicted to unseat Patrick Stewart, at the age of 25 years and 340 days. It was in 2007 that Snipes last appeared as Blade in Blade: Trinity, so it’s another record about time. He has the longest break between character appearances in Marvel movies, 19 years and 231 days. His cameo in Deadpool & Wolverine outlasted Alfred Molina’s 17-year break between No Way Home and his portrayal of Doc Ock in Spider-Man 2 (the 2004 film).
Like Wolverine and Deadpool’s previous guest stars, many people were taken aback when Blade appeared. Beyond the awful Mahershala Ali-ness of it all, Snipes seems to have moved on from his superhero days, even if he did not get along well with Ryan Reynolds during Trinity filming. However, he disclosed in a pre-release interview with Entertainment Weekly that the entire thing started with a text from Reynolds.
“It didn’t make sense to me,” he recalled, “but when you get a call from Ryan out of the blue after 20 years, you go, ‘Okay, I got to take this call.’ […] He told me the idea… They said ‘yes’ and ‘it’s a go.’ ‘If you’re in, we’re in.’” It was difficult to ignore the news, and it was also difficult to get physically ready for whatever was about to happen. However, he was happy to try it again and is still optimistic about what Ali would ultimately contribute. “You need a lot of secret sauce to do the Blade thing, man. Good luck. You’re my man, though.”
Snipes has won a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and an MTV Movie Award for best fight. Congrats to Snipes for his latest record.
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[Via Guinness World Records]
