Wesley Snipes responds to Patton Oswalt alleging he's violent: 'Why would people believe his version?'

Wesley Snipes is telling his side of the story.

In an interview with The Guardian published Monday, the "Blade" star finally addressed allegations made by his "Blade: Trinity" co-star Patton Oswalt, who claimed Snipes was difficult to work with on the set of the 2004 movie. In an interview with the AV Club in 2012, Oswalt called Snipes "(expletive) crazy in a hilarious way" and said he "tried to strangle the director, David Goyer."

"Let me tell you one thing. If I had tried to strangle David Goyer, you probably wouldn’t be talking to me now," Snipes said. "A black guy with muscles strangling the director of a movie is going to jail, I guarantee you.”

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He firmly denied the accusations, saying it “never happened.”

USA TODAY has reached out to Oswalt's representatives for comment.

“This is part of the challenges that we as African Americans face here in America – these microaggressions. The presumption that one white guy can make a statement and that statement stands as true!" Snipes said of Oswalt's comments. "Why would people believe his version is true? Because they are predisposed to believing the black guy is always the problem."

Snipes, who starred and executive produced "Blade: Trinity," described Oswalt as someone "I really don't know."

"I can barely remember him on the set, but it’s fascinating that his statement alone was enough to make people go: ‘Yeah, you know Snipes has got a problem.’ ”

Snipes said his experience is a microcosm of the larger issue of Hollywood being run by white people for white people.

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“I don’t expect a white guy to go out and write the experience of a Black guy growing up in the Bronx the way I grew up. How is he going to know that?”

Instead, he urges Black artists to follow the examples of filmmakers in South Korea or Nigeria, who "are not sitting there complaining about not being included in Hollywood," but rather "went and built their own."

In the same interview, Snipes opened up about his life after serving a prison sentence, revealing that his work life hasn't been compromised. In 2008, Snipes was convicted of three misdemeanor counts for failing to file tax returns from 1999 to 2001. He lost an appeal for a retrial in 2010 and was sentenced to three years at McKean Federal Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania.

"As far as the streets were concerned, it didn’t change their appreciation for my work and my artistry one bit. Not one bit," Snipes said, adding that he's "been offered some great roles," such as the upcoming "Coming 2 America" with Eddie Murphy.

He also shared the silver linings of his prison experience, such as "learning the value of time and how we often squander it."

“I’ve gained so much more. I understand so much more. And if two and a half years of my life were in meditation and isolation up at that camp out of the 100 I plan on living, good deal.”

He added: “I came out a clearer person. Clearer on my values, clearer on my purpose, clearer about my relationship with my ancestors and the great god and the great goddess above, and clearer on what I was going to do once I had my freedom back.”

Contributing: Ann Oldenburg

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Wesley Snipes denies Patton Oswalt's allegations of 'Blade' violence