Julie Bowen thought she was transmitted by Happy Gilmore 2 for 1 too common reason
In May 2024, Netflix announced the sequel to the 1996 sports comedy “Happy Gilmore”, starring Adam Sandler, but Julie Bowen found her role as Virginia Venit, Happy’s love interest, had retired a long time ago to the Club House.
“I heard it was happening and I thought: ‘Well, I will not be in him,'” Bowen confessed to The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday.
She admitted that she was not bitter because she was approved. After all, 30 years have passed since the original TEED.
“He has a sexy. He has a bit of Bitty aside,” he joked, recognizing Hollywood’s trend to change veterans for the younger talent.

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When the news of the sequel became public, it was Bowen’s children who alerted her to the news before she was “officially” requested to repeat his role.
“My 18 -year -old said: ‘Mom, I hear that they are doing a sequel and he is with Sydney Sweeney as a cart of cart,'” he recalled.
Although the “Euphoria” Sweeney star is not part of the project, Bowen admitted that the thought “hurt”, but said he would have respected the election.
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But Bowen received the news that he did not see.
“When I received the call that I was really in him, I was like, ‘Are you sure? Come on!”
In October, Bowen appeared in the “Sherri” diurnal interview program, presented by Sherri Shepherd, where he expressed his affection for working with Sandler, and shared that the producers plan to “decelerate themselves” for the paper, a process that said he was curious to see in action.


