But now it looks as if he really is on his way back. Some old friends stood by him: Spike Lee cast him in his 2015 film Chi-Raq, an adaptation of the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata, and Sylvester Stallone hired him for The Expendables 3, playing a character newly released from jail after being banged up for tax evasion. There has been no need he hasn’t had much to promote. Snipes has not done many interviews since his release from prison. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy Stock Photo with Eddie Murphy in Dolemite Is My Name. People are less familiar with my forays into technology and telecommunications.” And he has not even mentioned the acting or his fifth dan black belt in Shotokan karate. I can also write very well – I’m an author. He’s quick to tell me about the ways in which he is a multi-talented hyphenate. Snipes has never been backward in coming forward. And you might have somebody who by day is a nuclear physicist and by night is a professional karaoke artist.” And they have such members? “We do!” Can he give me names? “Nooooo!” My head is spinning already.Ĭould he be more specific? “For instance, you might have someone who by day is a senator and by night is a rock’n’roll guitar player. “The Daywalker Klique is a global community of multi-talented hyphenates, skill masters, adept at doing more than one thing extremely well on a mission to bring light to the world of darkness,” he replies. Behind him is a sign that reads “Daywalker Klique”. He looks the part, too – turquoise turtleneck, green cap, headphones and a long chain he says is a “Quantum Receptor … but that’s a bit too heavy for this conversation”.
With his deep velvet voice he sounds like the world’s smoothest jazz DJ. Snipes, 58, is sitting in a recording studio when we Zoom. After serving two and a half years, he was released in 2013. Snipes lost his appeal against conviction and in December 2010 he was jailed. In 2008, he was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $5m for wilful failure to file $15m worth of federal income tax returns. Then nearly all his films started going straight to DVD. First came the stories that he was difficult to work with.
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