Not long after that first role in a movie no one has ever heard of, Snipes got a lucrative part in a music video, but not just any music video — it was a starring role in Michael Jackson's epic video for "Bad," which was directed by the legendary Martin Scorsese. Also, he stole the part from Prince — at least, that's what he told Conan in 2017. "I blew Prince out of the water," he said. "Michael had told Prince that he had the role, and then he met me ... and kicked Prince to the curb." So that's not egotistical or anything, and it's also not the way Prince said it happened, but whatever. Everyone besides Wesley Snipes who can confirm or deny is no longer with us, so there you go.
Anyway, the version you'll see Snipes in is the 18-minute short film, in which he plays the antagonist. But that wasn't his only job on set — according to Rolling Stone, he was also Jackson's bodyguard while they were filming in Harlem. Jackson was evidently feeling less-than-comfortable in that environment, and at one point he turned to Snipes and said, "Are you scared?"
"I was like, 'Yo, Mike, what are you talking about?,'" Snipes later recalled. "...this is Harlem, baby! This is where we grew up. They love you. Really, you're scared?' He was like, 'A little.'" So guess which one of the two was really "bad"? Wesley Snipes seems pretty sure it was himself.
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