Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind the Making of “New Jack City”
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Veronica Wells
Wesley wasn’t feelin’ Nino
When Snipes was first presented with this role, he wanted to play “Scotty,” the detective, Ice-T’s part. But both Mario Van Peebles and screenwriter, Barry Michael Cooper weren’t having it. The role was written specifically for Snipes. After Barry Michael Cooper saw Snipes in Michael Jackson’s “Bad” video. Cooper said, “Wesley’s finger-in-the-face questioning of Michael Jackson’s bravery was so realistic that I thought Scorsese had hired a homeboy off the streets.”
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