
Happy Gilmore 2: Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen and Christopher McDonald tee up in sequel
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Christopher, Shooter McGavin is an iconic character. You've always said that this movie is the gift that keeps on giving. Is there something that got to do this time around that you always wanted to do?
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Christopher: That's a good question. Yes, it is the gift that keeps on giving. I'm glad we're here at this moment because it's coming out really soon. It's something I've been praying for and been an ambassador for years. I feel there's only two ways to go with Shooter McGavin, and I don't know wanna give any thing Sure. I took a different trajectory. I think that's a fair thing to say.
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Adam: Shooter's chipping away, man.
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Adam: It was kind of like everything 30 years later, you had a lot of stories to think about what could happen, what went on with these people's lives and just imagining what the hell they've been through and it couldn't have been more exciting as a writer. Me and Tim Hurley would sit and we would just laugh and say maybe this happened or this happened, and Shooter's storyline was extra funny. And, Julie and I had a nice love story that we enjoyed writing about and thinking about and stuff like that.
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Adam, you were 30 when you wrote and started in the original. So how have you reflected on that time period of your life and being a comedic actor/ writer then and now?
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Adam: Well, I think that probably the thing I thought about most was that when I shot the original, I weighed 178. Not anymore (laughs). That was fun, though.
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Christopher: 188 now.
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Christopher: Did you use it?
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Julie: I don't know that I actually kept anything physical. I wanted the crocodile, the alligator. I have some great pictures of me lying on top of that. It looks very real. So I do have a lot of pictures that I took back then because I had an actual camera, not a phone camera. I don't think I actually took anything, but you were complimenting Perry Blake, who was the designer for both movies — 30 years ago and all Adam Sandler movies. I would have taken Chubbs' hand. We'd have to send it around like the Stanley cup so everybody can have it.
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Christopher: It stuck out so far. It was a side gag from day one. They were nice enough to let me take my clubs, but then the sandman gave me the driver. Now this driver was a Wilson. To this day, I still have it and I hit it like a bomb. So thank you again for that [to Sandler]. The clubs are insanely beautiful and they're a classic.
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One of my favorite things in the film is the running gag of the many different items turned into things into flasks that we see Happy Gilmore using.
Adam: That's funny, man. We wrote that stuff and then the props department, Tim, he's been doing our movies forever and he just would say, what about this? And show us something funny and that made sense.
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