Drew Barrymore is sharing a shifting second involving her daughter and “50 First Dates.”
Whereas the 2004 rom-com left critics chilly, Barrymore’s onscreen reunion with Adam Sandler was so profitable that it grossed almost $200 million and ― maybe extra importantly ― led to a touching parent-child second for Barrymore a full 20 years later.
“My daughter and Adam’s daughter were watching it at my house the other night and I was like, ‘Why are you guys watching this? Like, don’t you get enough of me and your dad?’” Barrymore stated Monday on her eponymous discuss present. “And they were just so happy.”
“I was like, ‘Oh, but this is so sweet and wonderful,’” she continued.
Followers of the 2 actors, who additionally co-starred in 2014’s “Blended,” have been definitely smitten.
“Love these 2 Together! I even enjoyed Blended. I don’t care what anyone says, Blended was Awesome,” one individual wrote Monday on social media. One other fan commented merely: “Awww.”
Barrymore shares two daughters, 12-year-old Olive and 10-year-old Frankie, together with her ex-husband Will Kopelman. (It’s not clear which of her daughters she discovered watching the film.) Sandler and his spouse Jackie share two daughters, Sunny, 16, and Sadie, 18.
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“50 First Dates” reunited Sandler and Barrymore after the 1998 hit “The Wedding Singer,” and centered on a playboy (Sandler) who falls in love with a sun-soaked artwork trainer (Barrymore) who has anterograde amnesia — and may’t bear in mind a single day after the accident that precipitated it.
“50 First Dates” went on to win a 2004 MTV Film Award for “Best On-Screen Team.”
The movie appeared to return up organically Monday when Barrymore’s visitor, “Young Sheldon” star Emily Osment, stated she “sobbed” after not too long ago watching it for the primary time. She informed Barrymore it have to be “comforting” to seek out her daughter having fun with one in all her photos.
“It is!” Barrymore exclaimed. “Because your kids will, a lot of the time, reject so many things about you that when you see them embracing something, you’re like, ‘Oh, fantastic!’”
