When you're as famous as Adam Sandler,
it's almost impossible to keep your children out of the spotlight. As they've gotten older,
sisters Sunny and Sadie Sandler have really come into their own as performers.
With the arrival of his daughter Sadie Madison Sandler in 2006, Big Daddy star
Adam Sandler landed a lead role in the comedy of errors that is fatherhood. Two years later,
he reprised the role when Sandler and his wife Jackie welcomed baby number 2:
another daughter they named Sunny Madeline Sandler.
In a 2008 appearance on Live with Regis and Kelly,
Adam recounted how Sadie helped surprise him with the news that another baby was
on the way. She'd stayed up past her bedtime to give her dad a wrapped gift,
and to the great surprise of the actor, it turned out to be a positive pregnancy test.
We'll just assume that Adam's daughters didn't get to watch that Billy Madison
scene about how cool it is to pee your pants until they were old enough to know better,
but apparently, pants-wetting wasn't his biggest
parenting concern during the girls' early years. Sandler said in a press conference,
"The idea of my kids being spoiled,
I go to sleep thinking about it and I wake up thinking about it."
However, that mentality didn't stop Adam from raising his daughters to be big benefactors of
nepotism — they've gone on to start entertainment careers of their own.
Sadie Sandler has quite the list of acting credits, beginning with an uncredited role
as "girl riding on goat" in her dad's 2008 comedy You Don't Mess with the Zohan. She
appeared alongside her sister in 2010's Grown Ups, with their real mother even
playing their on-screen mom. Sandler has continued to keep casting in the family,
and his daughters have appeared in over a dozen of his films in various roles.
As teens, Sadie and Sunny got the opportunity to
play siblings again when their dad's production company, Happy Madison,
decided to adapt Fiona Rosenbloom's novel You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah for Netflix.
This time, Sunny wasn't just offered a small cameo, but a starring role as Stacy Friedman,
a middle schooler who is excited about planning the perfect bat mitzvah. That is,
until her best friend Lydia betrays her in a big way by
dating Stacy's longtime crush Andy, played by Dylan Hoffman.
With Sadie playing Stacy's older sister, Ronnie, it was only natural for Adam to
cast himself as the girls' father. The film boasts an impressive roster of co-stars
for the Sandler daughters, including Idina Menzel, Sarah Sherman, and Jackie Hoffman.
"How often does that happen?"
In an interview with Tudum, director Sammi Cohen praised Sunny's performance, saying,
"She's got this incredible free-spirited nature,
a natural silliness that elicits moments of charming vulnerability."
Sunny Sandler has grown up so much since being nominated for the Choice Celebrity Baby category
at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards. Little did she know, a nominee from another category
that year would wind up attending her real bat mitzvah someday. Twilight star Taylor Lautner,
winner of the 2009's Choice Movie: Male Fresh Face Award, made the guest list.
Lautner, who appeared alongside Adam Sandler in Grown Ups 2, was just one of many celebrities who
showed up to celebrate the special occasion with Sunny in 2022. According to People,
the guestlist also included Jennifer Aniston and Peyton List, who have also worked with
Adam before. The party also featured performances from heavy-hitters like Halsey and Charlie Puth.
Sammi Cohen told Tudum that the bash took place not long before
the Sandler family started shooting You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah together,
so getting into filming felt like a big extension of the celebration.
Luckly, Sadie didn't have to be jealous of her little sister's star studded ceremony.
Her own bat mitzvah was also the place to be in Hollywood when her parents went all-out for her
in 2019. On Conan, Adam and attendee Conan O'Brien gossiped about some of the guests,
which included Dustin Hoffman, Chris Rock, and David Spade.
However, it sounds like Adam scored the biggest points
with Sadie by asking Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine to perform at the party.
"Oh, she hugged me so much, my Sadie."