Licensed to Il wrote:I might have shared this before, don’t remember the podcast I heard it on.
When Sandler was a student at NYU, a professor took him out for a beer to tell him he lacked the talent to be a professional actor and to start searching for a fallback career. About 20 years later, Sandler had banked like 100+ mil off his movie deals and was out on the town with an group. He spots the very same professor, and he and his crew circle him. The poor guy is preparing to get crushed, revenge of the big movie star. But Sandler goes “hey guys, this is my only professor who ever bought me a beer!” And winks at him. They then invites the guy to drink with them. No soul crushing revenge was extracted.
Hanging with Sandler might get old with all tge shouting and “bippety boopety” sound effects. But he seems like a good person.
I don't know if I ever told the story here, but I'll explain what happened with my friend and Sandler because it's pretty unbelievable.
In one of his Netflix movies, The Do-Over, Adam Sandler's character is named Max Kessler. Coincidentally, my friend's name is also Max Kessler, and though I don't really see it outside of some racial undertones, he was known in high school and college as "the dude that looks like Adam Sandler" to the point that he had actually submitted a video audition to play the role of a young Adam Sandler in one of his other films just on a whim. So naturally, when the trailer for this movie comes out and we hear his name, we all just started dying laughing and convinced our friend to make a post on Reddit doing a side-by-side photo and pointing out the weird coincidence.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4fu5m3/the_name_of_adam_sandlers_character_in_his_new/All of a sudden that Reddit post went viral, became one of the top posts on the site that day, and it got so big that Adam Sandler himself eventually found out about it, and he commented on the Reddit post with a funny photo, my friend replied back with a similar photo, and Sandler decided to fly my friend out to LA to meet the gang and join him at the premiere of his movie.
It ended up getting to the point that Redditors started to get skeptical that this was all a ruse that Sandler and my friend had done on purpose to market the movie, that my friend was just a professional actor that nobody knows, etc.
And after the amazing night getting to know him, my friend ended up getting into comedy, got himself a movie deal (which ultimately fell through because it was laughably bad), etc. I will be beyond shocked if he ever makes it in the entertainment industry; he's doing really great for himself in the business world, but it was obviously an unforgettable moment in his life and Adam Sandler will always be kind of a hero to us for what he did.
