“We were writing the movie, me and [co-writer] Tim Herlihy, and then out of nowhere, we were like… I think we should watch the first one again!” he said, having forgotten much of what unfolded in its first outing.<\/p>\n
“Kids come up to me on the street over the years, and they mention something. I’d be like, ‘What happened?’ And so we watched the movie again. And then we go, ‘Oh yeah!’ and got excited talking about everything, talking about everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n
Christopher McDonald, by contrast, who has reprised his role as Happy’s rival Shooter McGavin, was still well acquainted with all of the comings and goings.<\/p>\n
“I watched it once a week for about 52 years,” he joked. “I’m a fan, and I do a lot of Cameos, I like dealing with the fans, so I kind of [became] Ambassador about this whole thing!”<\/p>\n
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Christopher McDonald as Shooter McGavin and Adam Sandler as Happy Gilmore in Happy Gilmore 2.\u00a0Netflix<\/p>\n
Other actors who have reprised their roles include Julie Bowen, who plays former public relations director and Happy’s love interest Virginia Venit, and Ben Stiller, who plays retirement home orderly Hal L, who now runs a support group.<\/p>\n
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The cast<\/a> is also stacked with cameos from across the worlds of sport and entertainment, including Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, Bad Bunny, Margaret Qualley, Eric Andr\u00e9, Travis Celce and Eminem.<\/p>\n Happy Gilmore 2 is streaming now on Netflix.<\/p>\n Check out more of our Film<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what’s on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But how has the film, around which there was considerable buzz ahead of its arrival, been received? At…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-25346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}