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Adam Sandler: The 60 Minutes Interview

Mar 20, 2024
60 Minute Rewind It's hard to believe it's been 30 years since Adam Sandler first appeared on Saturday Night Live, but did you know that Sandler was fired just a few years after joining the cast? We wanted to know why and how he evolved from a television. comedian to the strangest of things, a humble movie star who has grossed billions of dollars at the box office this month, the 53-year-old sometimes described as boyish may surprise audiences who think they know the Sandman gimmick . movie called Uncut Gems and his performance is generating some of the best reviews of his career.
adam sandler the 60 minutes interview
We wondered if all the hype had turned Sandler into a serious, cocky actor. We got our answer when, fresh off a red-eye flight, he wanted to meet us at a basketball court. It looks like a group of middle school or high school kids. I can usually keep up. Actually, no, I usually don't. How do you do it? are you in three, three on three?, fly, try to find a game somewhere, play, sweat a little. his game says a lot about the real Adam Sandler generous with a quick assist to congratulate good job ready but with sharp elbows and a tongue to match the ball hog You've been in New York for like 36 hours How many times have you played basketball?
adam sandler the 60 minutes interview

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That's really good, once with you and then I played right before this, I would say five, five sessions, is that what you do is almost always when I have nothing to do, or I fight eating, I say, uh, I can go to Eat or leave. playing basketball, the ups and downs of chubby life I Chandler is an unconventional film, a basket case look, a proud father of two children with his 16-year-old wife, Jackie, he is a normal guy who lives a charmed life, he which is part of his appeal, his career is Full of implausible comedies like Happy Gilmore and nonsense, chick comedies like The Wedding Singer change friends and he usually plays a fish-out-of-water character who prevails in the end.
adam sandler the 60 minutes interview
It's a formula that sometimes fails, that's how we operate in our house, baby. You know, when people talk about your career, they talk about these ups and downs and then the ups and downs and the ups, man, I don't know what the ups and downs have been, I mean, maybe some people, when they write about me, they talk about my ups and downs. , but I don't have any Down. I love all the movies I've done. I have never called anything on the phone in my entire career. Critics have said. I'm going to read you my favorites.
adam sandler the 60 minutes interview
You know this movie is the final nail in Adam. Sandler's coffin, another said he's no longer a movie star and another called you a manchild. I heard that, yeah, that makes some sense, you're not bulletproof, I mean, I'm not going to hurt, those things don't hurt me anymore I guess. He hurt me 20 years ago, he got me 20 years ago and I was shocked like what happened, they say I suck, I thought I was good at this, I don't care, it needs to be changed, do it, his new Lewisville can surprise his Los critics Uncut Gems is far from a predictable farce from Sandler, it is an intense dark drama set in the cutthroat world behind New York's 47th Street diamond district, he plays Howard Ratner, a jewelry dealer and sports player in Desperate Straits, a thousand dollars a point, is an excellent role.
Serious acting skills are required for every scene, everyone always talks about how you're such a nice guy and then you play this loud, sweaty, obnoxious character. Did you have any reservations about it? I was scared, yeah, and I said, I don't know, man, I don't know. I don't like them very much, how are you? This is kind of a street where we filmed a lot of things, we prepared, it's basically the big part of the movie, it's the character Rich here, yes, I had action. Sandler researched the role for months, creating a cadence and wardrobe to match the role, spaceless glasses, gold chains and oversized teeth.
What's up opposite retired NBA superstar Kevin Garnett, who plays himself, let me clean up? this floor, let me throw them into the ultrasound in the movie, I say to Kevin Garnett's character, let me wash your earrings? Well let me polish them for you and one of the guys told me that the first step is to take someone's jewelry because they can't leave and that you are doing something for them and then you could discuss the defects of what they have it and they say I have something a little bit better for you and that kind of stuff is smart, yeah, it's very smart.
New York's Diamond District is a world away from his hometown of Manchester, New Hampshire, where Sandler roamed minor league fields, the only thing bigger. that his hair was his confidence. I always looked very silly. I didn't realize it at the time. I thought he was some kind of stud, but looking back on it, it's pretty ridiculous. Where did the confidence my parents got come from? he told me it was my mother he said how great she was all the time I started to believe him but my father said: you're great but you're not that great oh oh my god this is this is the room I grew up in it's like a museum it grew up in this house the youngest of four children the strange comedian who says his childhood was happy but that was my bed that was my brother's bed oh my God look at this yes, the same rug, the same rug that I grew up with I'm sure the same sheets are the same as everything his late father Stan was a big man with a big personality an electrical contractor who coached his children's little league teams and whom Sandler calls his hero his mother Judy was a daycare teacher, she is his biggest admirer and sometimes harshest critic.
What did you think of the uncut songs? Oh, I loved it, it was very different, very different, very different, yes, especially the wolf teeth on him. I told you she goes straight to the team. You didn't like that look, not exactly. I spent all that money to make. Her teeth are cute and wow, what did your mom think about all the bad words in the movie every time I curse that she hates him? I agree, it's amazing, you can really put them together. I agree, yes, thank you, yes, I can write them well, my mother didn't teach me. cuss and I didn't teach her, it's been fun, she's fine, mom, stay out of the shots, now you've had your moment, her family is still a major influence on her life and her comedy.
I used to make my grandmother an imitation of my grandmother that everyone used. like in the house well, you know, Adam, she always used to say well, you know, you can't digest melon, that's not good for your stomach, that's why your tummy always hurts, she didn't know she was faking tummy aches to not going to school, he thought. was the melon his first job was at the Puritan What's up Everyone a local landmark in Manchester New Hampshire famous for their ice cream doesn't look like Adam Sandler a cherry Seinfeld and not a Sandler is disgusting when it came time to go to college he went to New York University, which allowed him to work in the city's nightclubs, worked hard to achieve this.
Got to this stage on Comic Strip live over 500 times when you go to the bathroom, public bathrooms are never fun you know, you always go in there with the same thing, take a piece of toilet paper and put it there, another piece there, then You put on your pants and August left, what were you making money? He came in here. I think it was 10 dollars a night. 10 dollars, that was good, I didn't care. Stand up is how Adam Sandler discovered what would become a trademark act of him using the guitar to sell his jokes. I was so nervous every time I got up tonight that I couldn't remember what I was supposed to say and I would go blank and um, you have the guitar in your hands because that way at least I was doing something, it was the security blanket, Yeah, yeah, yeah, still living in the dorm, he got his first big break, a guest spot on America's most popular sitcom, The Cosby Show.
It didn't last long, I did four episodes and I remember wanting to be in five. You know, I was always in that place in my life. I think you're so low-key that you don't really realize you were so ambitious. Very motivated man I don't know what the hell was going through my head What did you want? I have to get to SNL. I have to be a movie star. I wanted the Eddie Murphy. I wanted being like Eddie Murphy to mean becoming a movie. star, but he first came to Saturday Night Live when he was only 23 years old.
The story will continue after this holy heaven. Look at this. This is. This is the best. Best thing my brother told me when he was applying to colleges. um, I said, what should he study? He says: Why aren't you an actor? You should be a comedian. I said yes, yes, I will do that. That was something so stupid. Yes, his time on SNL was spent alongside, among others, Chris Rock David. Spade and the late Chris Farley, that was far away, at least he had a desk there, he was always crazy and funny. Spade was here, Chris Rock was here and you guys keep it up so much better than we do, we'd feel like his generation loved you critics.
Not even a few years on SNL powerhouse executive producer Lauren Michaels could save Sandler; It was the rare moment in the show's history when the network and the critics were on the same side, everyone agreed that this group of people were on board. It's not funny that they fired him or he quit. I certainly think I could protect him, but I think it's going to be a difficult year, right, right, it was almost like a recommendation, maybe it's a good time to quit, right, something like that. that my heart was broken and I was afraid and then you don't like to tell anyone, hey, you know what I was doing they said I wasn't good at it, look, it's the first time, almost 20, 25 years after I left, the last laugh, but it was his heartfelt tribute that night to his friend Chris Farley, who died in 1997 of a drug overdose, that stole the show.
I say it in rehearsal when we were doing it for the first time during the day and I kept getting choked up. I think it was just being on SNL and being in the place where I was with the man and, but yeah, Farley was the guy that we all just said well, he's the funniest now, who's next? Thank you very much Sandler is holding a zone. Netflix says his latest stand-up special. It was a hit and over 70 million people watched his murder mystery movie last summer with Jennifer Aniston Are you kidding me? I feel it on the screen on the stage or on the court Adam Sandler is beyond fun to watch that's called the perfect pass He is the most versatile know-it-all in the game.

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