Adam Sandler looking back into his life’s most exuberant experience.
The Murder Mystery star, 59, gives insight into a rare meeting during a live conversation at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in Santa Barbara, Calif on February 5.
“I don’t remember a hundred percent, but I was shooting [2000’s] Little Nicky … I was on the set,” Sandler said while recalling how he first connected with Anderson, who he said he had never heard of at the time.
“I got a phone call. I knew Tom Cruise a little bit. I get a phone call. My friend who’s here tonight, Jonathan, I think comes up to me and says, ‘Tom Cruise is on the phone for you.’ I go, ‘Oh, okay.’ And I go, ‘Hello?’ And [Cruise] goes, ‘Adam, I’m with my friend right now. He’s a really wonderful director.’ ”
“[Cruise] goes, ‘He wrote a movie for you. He wants to talk to you.’ I go, ‘Okay … now?’ And he goes, ‘Yeah.’ I said, ‘I’m shooting a movie right now.’ He goes, ‘He’ll be quick.’ So I go, ‘Okay.’ And then he gets on the phone, and then it’s Paul and he goes, ‘Hi. I just want to tell you I really like your movies.’ I said, ‘Oh man, that’s cool. Thank you.’ And he goes, ‘And I wrote you a movie. I think it’s really good. Would you mind if I brought it over to you so you could read it?’ ”
“And I said, ‘Yeah, man, anytime.’ And that was that,” he added.
