By Allison Samuels
Actors Wesley Snipes is still a few weeks away from becoming a free man. Still, the 50-year-old one-time star can spend his last days on house arrest secure in the knowledge that he’ll have at least one job waiting for him when he returns to Tinseltown.
Lionsgate Films announced earlier this week that Snipes is set to appear in the third installment of his good friend Sly Stallone’s franchise film series The Expendables. The movie centers on a group of older action heroes solving crimes together and will also star Jackie Chan and Nicolas Cage.
A paying gig is exactly what Snipes needs as he attempts to revive his career after serving nearly two years in jail for tax evasion. He was released into house arrest in New York in April.
Still, while Snipes’s first few months of freedom will find him gainfully employed, many in Hollywood say they see little chance of the actor regaining the top billing he once enjoyed. The reasons, they say, have less to do with time served than with an immensely talented actor too consumed by ego and pride to get out of his own way.
In his early career, the obstacles were different. Dolores Robinson, Snipes’s one-time manager, recalls being told several times by Hollywood bigwigs that Snipes was just too dark for major lead roles. They’d add that Denzel Washington’s brown skin tone was as about as dark as they were willing to go. “The powers that be weren’t shy about letting their true feelings be known,’’ said Robinson.
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