Anyway, Ed McMahon didn’t work out and we have been throwing out names, attempting to think about another person. Somebody mentioned, “What about Bob Baker?” and everybody mentioned, “Sure! Landing!”
He was fully recreation for it, he obtained the joke. This was additionally earlier than a Sandler film was a factor and folks knew what to anticipate. It was simply “a film,” if that is sensible. However he was completely up for it. Additionally, he’d studied martial arts as a interest perpetually, so, regardless that he was about 70, he actually might kick ass.
Sandler vs. Barker
We shot the entire combat in in the future on this golf course in Canada. I keep in mind early within the day it was foggy and raining. In actual fact, when the golf membership flew out of Sandler’s hand, that wasn’t within the script, the membership was moist.
When Bob arrived we met briefly. I mentioned “Hello Bob, I’m Dennis,” after which we needed to get to work. He and Sandler obtained alongside nice and Bob couldn’t have been a nicer gentleman. Like I mentioned, he was a martial artist, so he knew the right way to throw a punch. I keep in mind when he knocked Sandler into the water, it was freezing chilly however Sandler mentioned, “Fuck it, I don’t care, throw me in!”
Bob barely even used his stunt double. Perhaps a little bit bit after they have been rolling down the hill, however not far more than that. That was one other factor improvised on the day, as a result of there occurred to be this little hill on the golf course, so I filmed them rolling down it again and again so it appeared like they went 200 yards.
On my motion pictures with Sandler — I’ve finished eight of them now — we’re at all times improvising and throwing out concepts and Bob Barker was prepared for something. We’d throw stuff at him and he simply went together with it. On the finish of the combat, he provides Sandler a remaining kick and says, “Now you’ve had sufficient.” Then he turns round and says “Bitch.” That “Bitch” was a last-minute line from Jack Giarraputo, who’s been Sandler’s producing accomplice perpetually. Bob was a whole sport.
