Adam Sandler confirmed on “The Tonight Present” that cameras are set to start out rolling on “Glad Gilmore 2” in simply a few weeks. The long-awaited sequel to the 1996 comedy basic shall be taking pictures in New Jersey with a forged that may embrace actual skilled golfers and cameos like Travis Kelce, Sandler confirmed through the interview.
“We’re going to do ‘Glad Gilmore,’ thanks. That is taking place,” Sandler mentioned. “We’re on the brink of shoot it in New Jersey. We begin in a pair weeks. It’s good. We labored onerous on the script. We didn’t wish to let anyone down. Folks have been asking me for a very long time. We’re actually enthusiastic about it. We wrote our asses off. So most of the golfers are being good and shall be part of it.”
Kelce, who’s breaking into the performing enterprise with upcoming roles in Ryan Murphy’s FX collection “Grotesquerie” and the Lionsgate action-comedy movie “Free Cannons,” mentioned on his podcast in Could that he would do something to seem within the “Glad Gilmore” sequel, which Netflix formally introduced that very same month.
“Travis has… he talked about it, so we’ve got a pleasant one thing for Travis,” Sandler mentioned about Kelce’s look within the sequel. “He’s gonna come by. He’s a really good man. You guys would love him in actual life. What an enormous, good-looking man. Humorous and funky as hell. He’s a stud and he’s so humorous.”
Kelce mentioned initially that he’s a “large fan of the Sandman” and would do “something” to get a task within the movie. As quickly as “Glad Gilmore 2” was introduced, followers began pitching the NFL star for a task within the film.
“I’ll be a fucking additional… something to get round ‘Glad Gilmore,’ an Adam Sandler movie or set — rely me in,” Kelce mentioned. “I’ll do something within the film. I’ll be a part of it any approach I presumably can.”
In a separate interview with IndieWire, Sandler additionally confirmed that his “Uncut Gems” director Benny Safdie would have a task in “Glad Gilmore 2.” Not simply any position, however “he’s going to have a juicy half in that.” Safdie has acted in his personal films reminiscent of “Good Time” in addition to different tasks like “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” “Oppenheimer” and “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.”
“Glad Gilmore” made practically $40 million on the worldwide field workplace in 1996, serving to cement Sandler as one of many largest comedy stars of the last decade. He performed the title character, a hockey participant with anger administration points who discovers he’s additionally bought a expertise for golf. Glad joins the golf tour circuit to win cash to avoid wasting his grandmother’s home and faces off towards an conceited professional named Shooter McGavin, performed by Christopher McDonald. The supporting forged additionally included Julie Bowen and the late Carl Weathers.
Watch Sandler’s full interview on “The Tonight Present” within the video under.
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