Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler inThe Wedding Singer(1998).Photo: Everett Collection
The Wedding Singeris celebrating its silver anniversary!
The beloved comedy starringAdam SandlerandDrew Barrymoreturns 25 on Monday, which has many fans wondering if they will be treated to another team-up from the comedic duo anytime soon.
Enter Julia Sullivan, a bright-eyed young woman Robbie meets at a wedding gig where she is a waitress. The two hit it off immediately and become close friends, but their platonic dynamic quickly turns into something more. One big problem? Julia’s engagement to the nightmarish Glenn Gulia (Matthew Glave), not to mention Robbie still being hung up on Linda.
Of course, Robbie and Julia eventually find their way to happily ever after — thanks to an in-flight love song and a little help fromBilly Idol, playing himself — but what happens next?
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While Sandler and Barrymore haven’t said much in the way of a sequel toThe Wedding Singer, they have opened up over the years about their love of working together on the film plus their later projects,50 First Dates(2004) andBlended(2014).
“Iwasn’t allowed to sing ‘Grow Old With You’to Drew before we sang at the actual [taping],” said Sandler, to which Barrymore agreed, “Not once.”
“That’smy reaction on film, for the first time. I did that with ‘Forgetful Lucy’ too,” Barrymore said, shouting out the pair’s similarly musical moment in50 First Dates.
“She came in, we jammed on a movie idea, we got together, we shot it, we had the best time ever,” he added, referring toThe Wedding Singer.
Drew Barrymore, Billy Idol and Adam Sandler inThe Wedding Singer(1998).Everett
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Back in March 2019, Barrymore revealed that of all the people she has co-starred in films and television shows with, there’s one that stands out.
“Adam Sandler, obviously, just because I want to make movies with him forever,” she told PEOPLE exclusively at the season 3 premiere of herNetflixshowSanta Clarita Diet.
So is it time for the acting dream team to reunite again? According to Barrymore, they definitely have “more to go!”
“We just talked on the phone the other day,” she explained at the time of her friendship with Sandler. “We talk on the phone often, and we were like, it feels like something, I don’t know.”
“We always get like a time and an instinct thing,” Barrymore added. “We’ve done it three times now,so we know we have more to go.”
Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler in 2014.Franziska Krug/Getty Images
As for a potentialWedding Singerreunion, Barrymore teased toEntertainment Tonightlast month that she and Sandler are “talking about it.”
“I think it’s time too. We’re looking. We’redefinitely actively looking,” she added.
Recalling Sandler’s recentappearance on her show, Barrymore toldET, “We did talk about how we were like, ‘Oh it’s coming up on 10 years.’ "
“We talked about some ideas and we’re definitely in. It’s percolating,” she said.
source: people.com
