{"id":31399,"date":"2025-07-30T02:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31399\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T02:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:16:07","slug":"adam-sandler-on-cameron-boyce-tribute-julie-bowen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/31399\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Sandler on Cameron Boyce Tribute, Julie Bowen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAdam Sandler<\/a> is celebrating the Happy Gilmore<\/a> 2 team\u2019s swings that helped deliver the biggest U.S. opening weekend of all time for a Netflix<\/a> film. <\/p>\n

\n\tDirector Kyle Newacheck<\/a>\u2018s sequel to the beloved 1996 golf comedy<\/a> began streaming Friday to strong numbers, as the movie was No. 1 on the streamer\u2019s English film list and marked the highest debut for a Sandler feature by collecting 46.7 million views in its first three days, according to Netflix. Additionally, Netflix also reports that Universal\u2019s original Happy Gilmore movie had 11.4 million views, landing it at No. 3 on the platform\u2019s movie chart.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, Sandler and co-writer Tim Herlihy discuss the decision to have Happy deal with a tragic loss; the film\u2019s heartfelt tribute<\/a> to Sandler\u2019s Grown Ups co-star Cameron Boyce<\/a>, who died from an epileptic seizure at age 20; and the chance of future sequels to Sandler\u2019s titles.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tAdam Sandler in Happy Gilmore 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Netflix<\/p>\n

\n\tHow does it feel to get this response to the film?<\/p>\n

\n\tSANDLER We couldn\u2019t be happier. It\u2019s something that I can\u2019t describe. Just walking down the street, hearing people talk about it even before it came out \u2014 we were like, something fun is going on here. We went from, this was nothing we ever thought about, to having one of the best times of our careers together, feeling the fun of it all.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou had typically eschewed sequels, at least until Grown Ups 2. Given the pressure of reviving a beloved character, did this new iteration accomplish what you wanted? <\/p>\n

\n\tSANDLER Herlihy, what do you think?<\/p>\n

\n\tHERLIHY We made this movie for the sickos who loved the first movie. Seeing how the first movie\u2019s doing on Netflix \u2014 it\u2019s doing great, too. People have really embraced it as a continuation of the story.<\/p>\n

\n\tAre there any other films of yours that could get a sequel?<\/p>\n

\n\tHERLIHY This throws it open. Obviously, a lot of our older movies, we\u2019ve lost castmembers, like in this one, and sometimes it\u2019s hard to imagine doing it without them. Definitely not sure we want to just be in the business of doing sequels to movies. (Laughs.) But the response to this and the way people have embraced it definitely makes it more exciting, if we were to do that.<\/p>\n

\n\t[The following question contains a spoiler for Happy Gilmore 2.]<\/p>\n

\n\tThe movie includes a stunning reveal for Julie Bowen<\/a>\u2018s character, Virginia. Was it a tough decision to make that choice with her? <\/p>\n

\n\tSANDLER We love Julie. She\u2019s just a great vibe and a great person. We love working with her, and we did the first one and Hubie Halloween. We just knew we needed Happy to have to overcome something in this story. There\u2019s nothing more painful than losing someone you love. Just wanted to show how dedicated Happy was to Julie\u2019s character, and he would never be able to move on from it and the love he had for her. We just thought that was something to have going with the new story of where Happy is at his age. We\u2019re older now, so we\u2019ve seen people go through stuff, and when you get older, this shit can happen \u2014 not in the same way it happens in our movie, but you lose people. Just dealing with it is difficult, and especially when you feel like you might have been a part of it, it\u2019s hard to shake that stuff. So we just thought it was interesting for Happy to have to think about that and get back in the game.<\/p>\n

\n\tHERLIHY Julie is one of the best hangs around. We were really looking forward to seeing her and Chris [McDonald] and Ben [Stiller]. So it was a real sacrifice, but as Adam was saying, the story kind of demanded it.<\/p>\n

\n\tWere there moments or cameos that didn\u2019t make it into the finished film?<\/p>\n

\n\tHERLIHY I don\u2019t want to get specific about any of the cameos. Definitely, some people didn\u2019t make it, and some treasured jokes didn\u2019t make it. To get it into a reasonable length, we had to cut some things that were working, which is always hard. It\u2019s easy to cut jokes that aren\u2019t working, but it\u2019s hard to cut the jokes that really score but just don\u2019t fit in a movie time frame.<\/p>\n

\n\tIs there talk of bringing the character back for other projects or a third film?<\/p>\n

\n\tHERLIHY Not between me and Adam. I can say we haven\u2019t had one discussion about it. I haven\u2019t even thought about it in the privacy of my own brain. I\u2019m sure some people in the world are talking about it. Never say never, I guess. We said we\u2019d never do Happy Gilmore 2, and it\u2019s currently streaming on Netflix, so you never know.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat went into giving Cameron Boyce an appearance in the film?<\/p>\n

\n\tSANDLER Love that kid. He was one of the sweetest persons I\u2019ve ever met \u2014 just constantly in a good mood, constantly great energy, loving to everybody. He felt like a family member to us when we were shooting Grown Ups. Of course, we were going to shoot with Cameron on Hubie Halloween, and we were getting ready to have a great time together, and we lost him. We think of him all the time. This was just a moment where we were like, \u201cWhat should we throw on the TV?\u201d We said, \u201cMight as well throw Cameron in there. He\u2019s the man. Keep him part of our family.\u201d And so that\u2019s why we did it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Sandler is celebrating the Happy Gilmore 2 team\u2019s swings that helped deliver the biggest U.S. opening weekend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[19754,64,63,29399,134,17785,17788,19755,23011,344,435],"class_list":{"0":"post-31399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-adam-sandler","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-cameron-boyce","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-happy-gilmore","14":"tag-happy-gilmore-2","15":"tag-julie-bowen","16":"tag-kyle-newacheck","17":"tag-movies","18":"tag-netflix"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}