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In the hit action thriller Blade, Stephen Dorff sinks his teeth into the role of Deacon Frost, the archenemy of the vampire-slaying comic-book hero (played by Wesley Snipes). So who was his favorite comic-book hero growing up? "I had an obsession with Spider-Man for a few years," says Dorff, 25. "When I was real young, I had a Spider-Man costume. I put it on every day after school. But I don't know if I would be right to play Spider-Man in a movie." Apparently he wasn't right for the lead in Titanic either, although he was up for the role that eventually went to Leonardo DiCaprio. "I think things happen for a reason," Dorff says philosophically. "Obviously, if I'd gotten it, I would have been on a different path. But when you do a movie that makes a billion dollars, it's a scary thing because what do you do next?"