SNIPES BACKS NEW YORK BAD TRIBUTE TO JACKSON
WESLEY SNIPES has backed plans to honour his late BAD co-star MICHAEL JAC= KSON at the New York subway station the iconic video was filmed.
City bosses want to erect a tribute to the King of Pop at the Hoyt-Sche= rmerhorn station in Brooklyn.
Snipes, who shot scenes at the station with Jackson and director Martin= Scorsese, insists it would be a worthy honour, following the star’s deat= h last year (Jun09).
And he insists he still remembers the lessons he learned from Jackson, = nearly 25 years after they met.
The actor tells WENN, "(The tribute) would be cool.
"The amazing thing is I was only supposed to be on the project for abou= t three days and it turned out to be three and a half weeks; almost a mon= th of filming.
"The thing I took from it the most was watching Michael Jackson perform= at performance level in his rehearsals. I said, ‘Wow that’s the consumma= te artist right there. That’s the pinnacle of where I would like to go an= d the skills that I would like to have as an artist; where I could come i= n and my rehearsals are performances.’ I took that from him and that’s wh= at I’ve been trying to be persistent with in my work as well." (IG/WN&RXM=
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