Adam Sandler has grown up at least a little bit in the past three decades.
His “Happy Gilmore” co-star Julie Bowen noticed. In the first film in 1996 featuring Sandler as the accidental golfer, Happy’s “happy place” is a dreamy scene where love interest Virginia (Bowen) is clad in white lingerie and double-fisting pitchers of beer. (Happy’s bad place? Virginia in black lingerie and canoodling with rival Shooter McGavin, played by Christopher McDonald.)
Cut to 29 years later. In “Happy Gilmore 2” (streaming now on Netflix), Sandler, 58, includes a moment when present-day Virginia shares screen time with her younger self and quips to Happy that she "can't believe" this was his happy place. "I'm sorry," he says, and Virginia replies: "Oh, sweetie, don't worry. I'm not here to judge your fantasies."
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“When I read that he wanted to update it a little bit and comment on it, I wasn't sure anybody even needed that,” Bowen, 55, says in a video chat with Sandler and McDonald. “I love that scene. I love it when it's the bad place and Shooter grabs my (rear). I didn't feel objectified. It was too much with the tongue, though.” (“Oh, sorry,” jokes McDonald, 70.)
