12/5/2023 0 Comments Adam sandler and andy sambergIs there a strange sort of kinship, regardless? Is it almost like having gone to the same school in a way? Samberg: Yeah, anytime I meet someone who used to be on the show, there’s sort of an instant warmth. You’ve got Will Forte, Ana Gasteyer, Rachel Dratch, Colin Quinn… Some of them you coexisted with on SNL, some you didn’t. IGN: There’s several SNL alum in the film besides you and Adam. And me being like, "What the f**k did I sign up for here? This is fantastic!" I couldn’t have dreamed it up any more perfect. By the way, that was some of the first stuff we shot! I showed up in Boston and some of the first scenes we shot were me and Sandler and Vanilla Ice skating and knocking people over – Todd Bridges smoking a bong out on the rink. IGN: With that sequence with you, Adam and Vanilla Ice, is it just a very strange experience when you’re running around with those guys? It’s for a movie, but on the other hand, you are running around with Adam Sandler and Vanilla Ice! Samberg: Without a doubt. Every day we’d have fun watching playback. ![]() It was definitely an exciting thing to shoot. There’s a lot of crazy S**t that goes down in the movie. We were either shooting a scene where James Caan is beating the s**t out of me or in a strip club with Luenell upside down drinking orange juice and eating eggs on a stripper pole. Samberg: Hmm hm! IGN: Is it safe to say it was continually interesting on set? Samberg: Yeah, there was no dull moments. IGN: I mentioned Vanilla Ice in passing, but this is a movie that gives you notable scenes with the likes of Vanilla Ice andJames Caan. I learned a ton from him and we also had a blast just hanging. Controls his company and his set and is constantly looking for better jokes and open to ideas. The dude is super funny, super nice, works his ass off. It was just a straight up dream come true. IGN: What was it like working with Sandler and playing this father/son dynamic? Samberg: It was awesome. Definitely, going in, that was the thing I felt the most nervous about, because it was the newest and arguably could be the most challenging, but I actually found it to be pretty fun. It was nice to have an arc for the character and it was cool for me to play a very reactionary character and a little more uptight. IGN: Was it interesting for you to start off playing a more straight-laced character than we’ve seen you play before and get to experience that, but then get to show where he can go to when, say, Vanilla Ice and a lot of alcohol are involved? Samberg: Who knows what anyone will do when you add Vanilla Ice and alcohol and stir? Yeah, it was fun. A lot of things change in the film as it goes on. IGN: Your characters starts out as more of the straight man, though things begin to change for him as the film progresses. So I was really, really excited about it. ![]() So we had a little bit of contact, but never as much time to hang as shooting a whole movie. And I’d gone and visited him at Happy Madison with Akiva and Jorma, my working partners, and hung out with him a couple of times there. He called me, just out of the blue, to welcome me to the show when I first got hired, which meant the world to me. But to work on a movie? Even better! IGN: Did you know him at all beforehand? With SNL veterans, is there some secret, underground club that you all have a special key to? Samberg: Yeah, there’s a series of underground tunnels at 30 Rock that we all conspire in and meet. So yeah, I read it, I thought it was hilarious and obviously my entire life I’ve been dying to do something with Sandler – even if it was just to meet him and hang out with him and sort of stare into his eyes. IGN: Which is making it into the dictionary, right? Samberg: At least the slang dictionary. They were so aperkt! Which is definitely a word. IGN: How did you first hear about the project and this opportunity to play Sandler’s son? Adam Samberg: My agent said Happy Madison had this script and it called for Adam Sandler’s son if he had a son as a teen and my ears basically blew off of my head with perkness. ![]() What follows is an increasingly bizarre weekend, in a movie that takes full advantage of its R rating, eventually involving the likes of… Well, read my interview with Samberg below to hear about some of the interesting costars in That’s My Boy, along with info on a couple of upcoming projects, including Grown Ups 2 and Hotel Transylvania.
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