How Wesley Snipes got ripped to become Blade

In a behind-the-scenes featurette about the making of Blade: Trinity, Snipes and his fellow leads reveal the insane workouts they had to go through while the film was being made. Director David Goyer shared the lengths the cast went to for the trilogy’s closing film.

“They were all training a good three months before we started shooting,” he said. “Every day, four hours a day, seven days a week.”

Another member of the crew shared Jessica Biel‘s motivation for committing to the workout, saying she wanted the audience to find her character credible. “You want to really believe that Abigail kicks ass,” she said. “You want to believe…that this girl could take down several large men.”

Ryan Reynolds described a workout that is tiring just to read — starting with 500-1,000 sit-ups, then moving to heavy weights. “Weight training involved a variety of exercises too numerous to mention at reps of about 8-12, for 6 days a week,” he said. “After the first week I was longing for the sweet release of death, but soon enough I got really into it.”

While Reynolds and Biel were starting from scratch and working intensely, Snipes merely had to maintain what he already had with a few enhancements. His workout was significantly different.

Written by: Looper