Julie Bowen Revealed The Sweet Way Adam Sandler Consoled Her After She Downplayed Her Role In The “Happy Gilmore” Sequel

Last month, Julie Bowen admitted that she was totally surprised to beryllium formed arsenic Adam Sandler’s emotion involvement successful the upcoming Happy Gilmore sequel.

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Adam and Julie — who are 58 and 55, respectively — played lovers Happy and Virginia successful the 1996 sports comedy. But contempt the information that Adam is lone 3 years older than her, Julie was convinced that she wouldn’t beryllium formed successful the forthcoming sequel, which drops connected Netflix aboriginal this month. She told The Hollywood Reporter, “I thought, ‘Well, I won’t beryllium successful it.’ And that was OK… It’s been 30 years, he’s got a hottie. He’s got immoderate small bitty connected the side, similar a cart girl.”

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“As a substance of fact, my children told me, earlier I was adjacent told officially that determination was a Happy Gilmore sequel, my present 18-year-old said, ‘Mom, I perceive they’re doing a sequel and he’s with Sydney Sweeney as a cart girl,’” she shared.

“I went, 'I’m hurt, and I truthful respect that move.' Of course, wherefore wouldn’t you? So erstwhile I got the telephone that I was really successful it, I was like, ‘Are you sure? Come on,’” she added.

Now, Julie has opened up further astir her thoughts being formed successful Happy Gilmore 2 during a caller quality connected Michael Rosenbaum’s Inside of You podcast. “I didn't deliberation they'd bring maine backmost astatine all,” she shared. “I mean, who americium I expected to be? He's got to person a younger pistillate successful this one, Happy Gilmore 2.”

After reiterating that she “was amazed to beryllium successful it,” Julie aboriginal revealed the saccharine mode that Adam urged her to halt downplaying her role. “I support saying, 'I’m successful it for, like, a heartbeat. I’m successful it for, like, nothing,' and Adam's like, ‘Stop saying that! You're the bosom of the movie!’” she shared.

Elsewhere connected the podcast, Julie recounted what it was similar auditioning for the archetypal Happy Gilmore film, admitting that she was “very nervous” aft seeing truthful galore “super sexy girls successful the waiting room.”

“They were each sexy and they had it together,” she recalled. “I was wearing jeans, maybe. I don’t know, it was thing precise normal. The miss that had gone successful earlier maine was real, real, bombshelly. I went successful after, and I was precise tense ‘cause I was like, ‘They’re gonna prosecute a blistery girl,’” she said.

However, Julie noted that aft “chatting and hanging out” with the casting squad who did her audition, she saw that they were “visibly relieved.”

“We ended up chatting and hanging out, and I read, and they were relieved. They were visibly relieved. I go, ‘What's going on?’ They’re like, ‘Yeah, immoderate of these girls are conscionable truthful aggressively sexy.’ And I was like, ‘That’s a atrocious thing?’” she said.

You tin find Julie’s afloat quality connected the Inside of You podcast here. Happy Gilmore 2 volition beryllium disposable to watercourse connected Netflix from July 25.