Series
.

Adam Sandler & the Cast of ‘Happy Gilmore 2’ on Teaming Up with Bad Bunny

July 22, 2025
Join Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen, Chris McDonald, and Benny Safdie as they spill the chisme on filming Happy Gilmore 2 and what it was like working alongside global music icon Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio — aka Bad Bunny.
Show transcript
00:00
We had it all,
00:01
so I told Virginia we should just retire so we can hang
00:04
out with the kids all day.
00:06
We're not done with golf.
00:07
Happy. Golf's not done with us.
00:09
Familia, me too.
00:10
I'm here with Adam Sandler and Julie Bowen.
00:13
It's been 30 years since Happy Gilmore,
00:15
and this time he's back with.
00:16
Caddy, you might have heard of Benito Martinez.
00:20
My goodness. All right,
00:23
that's it. That's it.
00:24
I'm sorry. No,
00:25
no, no. I spill the tea for me.
00:27
Whose idea was it to bring Bad Bunny in as a caddy
00:29
I saw Benito on Saturday Night Live.
00:34
Host the show. This is,
00:35
this is before we did our movie.
00:37
I was like, good Lord,
00:39
3 years ago we did the first time,
00:41
but I saw Bad Bunny and I was like,
00:43
good, good God,
00:44
this guy is funny.
00:45
He was so warm,
00:47
so loving, and what an original.
00:50
Way of being and telling jokes and it's just I've never seen
00:54
anybody like the bunny.
00:56
A couple of months back on on Jimmy Fallon,
00:58
he called to Theo Sandler.
00:59
You know what that means?
01:00
The uncle, your uncle.
01:03
What an honorable title.
01:03
I mean, are you OK with Latinos calling you Theo?
01:07
Are you kidding me forever?
01:08
Yeah, I would take that and I and I'd be honored
01:11
to be everybody's uncle Benito.
01:14
I, I love him for the rest of my life.
01:15
He's a sweetheart. I,
01:17
I saw him. I've seen him a few times since,
01:20
but I saw him at the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live
01:23
and he performed and I saw him in the daytime and
01:26
we were all, everyone was rehearsing and it was like I
01:29
saw,, like my nephew.
01:31
I just was like,
01:32
God, I love that kid and we hugged and talked and
01:35
I, I'm, I believe in.
01:37
Everything he's doing. He's such a great kid.
01:39
He's amazing and he didn't call me Tia.
01:41
He called me Mia.
01:43
I don't know. I don't know I don't know what it
01:48
means hard for him last time I was on this course,
01:50
Benito was driving in the car and I just saw Julie?
02:02
I got the whole album,
02:04
the whole last album,
02:06
is my jam. He was working on stuff while we were
02:09
here on on the weekends I'd say,
02:12
did you get any sleep this weekend?
02:13
I was doing my album.
02:15
It's, it's so good.
02:16
It's so good. And even for people like me that are
02:20
like don't understand. It's a,
02:23
it's like a front porch hang by the way,
02:26
we would play Bad Bunny because I always play music when when
02:29
there's a group of people making a movie.
02:31
I put on Bad Bunny then when he'd come to the set
02:34
and all of a sudden Benito just lip sync along and dance
02:37
and crowd would go crazy for him.
02:43
Chris, you got to bring back the iconic shooter McGavin.
02:47
How often do people shout at you saying shooter.
02:50
Every day, maybe 3 4000 times a day if I'm in
03:11
an airport. Give him the little shooter like that.
03:11
I feel like there might be an increase in the coming days
03:12
Yeah, I thought about it and I was like,
03:12
wait, could change the rules of golf.
03:13
Benny, how does it feel to join this iconic project?
03:16
I mean it's, it's the best,
03:18
you know, it's like when he called me,
03:20
when Sandler called me to do this,
03:21
it was instant. It was like,
03:23
OK, yes, no questions asked.
03:26
It was, it was,
03:26
it was because it was we had we had a relationship before
03:40
you know, so it was just like I didn't even
03:40
need to read it.
03:40
It was kind of like,
03:40
yes, now I'll read that's cool.
03:42
And that's that's and he killed it,
03:44
knocked it out of the park.
03:47
Now another addition to the cast,
03:48
Benito, Bad Bunny.
03:51
Tell me about it.
03:51
He's our Latino king icon.
03:54
He, he's cause he doesn't present himself that way,
03:57
which was, he's just like,
04:00
he was, he was always around.
04:01
He was just like really.
04:03
Humble, amazing, and he's really great.
04:06
He's very, very funny,
04:08
very, very funny.
04:09
He doesn't say a lot,
04:10
almost like didn't say so much,
04:11
but sort of like silent act,
04:13
back in the day,
04:14
which steals your focus.
04:16
I watched him every second.
04:17
I worked with him.
04:18
I thought this guy is really funny and he's really contained like
04:22
that. So that's.
04:24
You know, it's just a a major talent and that's another
04:26
that's another hard role to step into the caddy,
04:29
you know. Did he teach you all some Spanish,
04:34
some of his songs?
04:35
Did he put you guys on to anything?
04:39
Well, I think you guys should go celebrate the release of
04:41
Happy Gilmore in Puerto Rico.
04:42
His tour just started.
04:43
I know. It's only for,
04:46
it's only for nationals there,
04:49
trust me, I looked into it.
04:57
You have to be,
04:57
wait what? Bad Bunny said he would get you one ticket
04:59
and just one gets because he wants me a more.
05:07
All right, familia me too,
05:08
be sure to check out Happy Gilmore too.
05:10
You do not want to miss this.