Jackie Sandler, Adam Sandler, Sunny Sandler, and Sadie Sandler attend Netflix’s ‘Spaceman’ screening in Los Angeles.Photo:Charley Gallay/Getty
Charley Gallay/Getty
EvenAdam Sandlerhas to work hard to get his teenage daughters' attention.
While speaking to reporters, Adam was asked about sharing the screen withhis daughtersSadie, 17, Sunny, 15,in multiple movies. Most recently, Sunny joined her dad as Anna inSpaceman,while he plays Jakub Prochazka, an astronaut on a solo mission to Jupiter.
Jackie Sandler, Adam Sandler, Sunny Sandler, and Sadie Sandler attend Netflix’s ‘Spaceman’ screening in Los Angeles.Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty
Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty
When asked if casting his teen daughters in films is the best way to spend time with them, Adam admitted, “They still don’t talk to you. They go do their thing.” He added: “They do the best they can, and then they go do their life. I am on the side going, ‘Love you.’ I say I love you a lot to them.”
Sadie and Sunny have been working alongside their famous father for more than a decade now, regularly starring in films with their model-actress mother,Jackie, 49, as well. Jackie and Adamtied the knotin 2003.
The family recently starred together in the 2023 Netflix filmYou Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.Sadie and Sunny also voiced charactersJayda and Summer, respectively, alongside their dad, who voiced Leo, in the 2023 animated filmLeo.
Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan at the L.A. ‘Spaceman’ premiere.Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty
Spacemansees Adam take on a more dramatic role, starring as astronaut Jakub alongsideCarey Mulligan’s Lenka.
“Six months into a solitary research mission to the edge of the solar system, an astronaut, Jakub (Sandler), realizes that the marriage he left behind might not be waiting for him when he returns to Earth,” a synopsis reads.
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