THE “RAPPING GRANNY” LIVED TO BE 101.Īt the age of 84, Ellen Albertini Dow portrayed Robbie’s neighbor Rosie, a.k.a. Soon after this meeting, the script for The Wedding Singer came along. Still, as Barrymore told The Huffington Post, she was convinced that she and Sandler were “cinematic soul mates,” and wasn’t afraid to tell him so. “We looked like the worst blind date you’ve ever seen,” Barrymore recalled, referencing how she had purple hair and wore a leopard coat. Barrymore told Howard Stern she was interested in working with Sandler because “ I want to be a modern weird Hepburn, Tracy old Hollywood couple.” Sandler agreed to meet with her. Since the release of The Wedding Singer, Sandler and Drew Barrymore have gone on to star in 50 First Dates (2004) and Blended (2014) together, but their original collaboration was really the actress’s doing. BARRYMORE APPROACHED SANDLER ABOUT WORKING TOGETHER. And I got older and it’s still not good.” 5. “I started when I was pretty young and I was always like, you’ll get better. Sandler was candid with his answer: “The main reason for not having a sex scene is I’m not good at sex,” he said. In the same interview, Conan O’Brien asked Sandler why there weren’t any sex scenes in the film, which seemed odd for a rom-com.
THE WEDDING SINGER MOVIE
THE MOVIE DOESN’T FEATURE ANY SEX SCENES, AND THERE’S A REASON FOR THAT. “You got guys who say they don’t want to be in love, but those are usually guys who have been hurt before.” 4. It was nice to do a movie that was pro-marriage and pro-love.” He explained men have a difficult time falling in love. While promoting the movie on Late Night With Conan O’Brien in 1998, Sandler said, “We wanted to make a romantic comedy that was heavy on the laughs. SANDLER WANTED TO MAKE A “PRO-LOVE” FILM. So of course, we thought, ‘Why don’t we do a story about a wedding singer in the 1980s?’” 3. “I was listening to the radio show Lost in the ’80s, and I said, ‘I want to do a movie set in the 1980s.
Sandler mentioned to Herlihy that he wanted to do “a film about a wedding singer who gets left at the altar.” For his part, Herlihy let the radio inspire him. The Wedding Singer was written by Tim Herlihy, a longtime collaborator of Sandler’s who, in addition to writing for Saturday Night Live, wrote the scripts for Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, and The Waterboy (among other Sandler-starring films). THE IDEA TO SET THE FILM IN THE 1980S CAME FROM THE RADIO. I think if had happened before, The Wedding Singer would have been one seriously depressing movie.” 2. It let me look at it differently and allowed it to be funny. “I think the distance between those two things was good. “I remember lying in bed and not being able to move, so it was easy to tap into that pretty quickly,” Coraci told The Hollywood News of his own heartbreak, which happened a couple of years before the movie came along. Longtime Sandler friend and collaborator Frank Coraci directed The Wedding Singer, and said that his own experience with having his heart broken was part of what allowed him to tap into the movie’s unique balance of humor and heartfelt romance. THE DIRECTOR’S OWN REAL-LIFE HEARTBREAK ALLOWED HIM TO TAP INTO THE FILM’S EMOTION. For the film’s 20th anniversary, here are 11 fun facts about The Wedding Singer.
After earning its $18 million budget back during its opening weekend alone, The Wedding Singer went on to gross $123 million worldwide-making it Sandler’s highest-grossing movie to date at the time.īesides being a bona fide box office hit, the film’s two ’80s-heavy soundtracks-which included tunes by The Police, David Bowie, The Psychedelic Furs, New Order, and The Smiths-were also popular. On February 13, 1998, Adam Sandler gave Valentine’s Day sweethearts a retro treat with The Wedding Singer, a 1980s-set rom-com about a heartbroken wedding singer named Robbie Hart (Sandler) who falls in love with a waitress/bride-to-be whose married name will leave her as Julia Gulia (Drew Barrymore).Īt this point in Sandler’s career, he was known more for his puerile comedies like Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison, not as a romantic leading man.
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