Beating each other up? A famous musician performing at one of their birthday parties?
Adam Sandler isn't just one of Hollywood's biggest comedy
stars — He's also a dad! Keep watching to find out the truth about his daughters!
Adam Sandler never had a reputation for being a huge party guy in Hollywood,
but the arrival of his two beloved daughters still changed things up pretty dramatically for him.
After he and his wife Jackie welcomed Sadie and Sunny Sandler, their social life took
a definite hit as they adapted to life with young children. Sandler told HuffPost in 2014,
"My kids give me the most joy, but there are life adjustments."
He further explained that he started eating dinner and going to bed
really early. The actor described his new schedule this way, saying,
"Last night, my wife and I were falling asleep at 8 and we said, 'No, we're not
giving into this sleep. Maybe we should go see a movie after the kids fall asleep.'"
Well, spoiler alert: No movie was seen, and not much sleep was had either.
Sandler summed it up by saying, "Welcome to parenthood."
But of course, having kids is not all bad for the father of two — not
even close. Speaking to Access Hollywood in 2006 about the arrival of Sadie, he gushed,
"I had a chemical reaction in my body, where I loved the kid so much,
and I was so nervous for her, and that's when I lost my mind for the kid."
Aw!
"I must've done a pretty decent job as a dad, don't ya think?"
Sadie is two years older than Sunny Sandler, and like with most siblings,
it's not always all sunshine and rainbows between the two girls in their family home.
When Ellen DeGeneres asked their dad Adam if his daughters get along, he answered,
"They love each other."
But then barely taking a breath, he added that they do fight, quite often actually.
Explaining how it all goes down and why he thinks the fighting happens, Adam continued,
"I think Sadie is at school all day with kids her age, and, you know, has the give and take
of being cool and also not being cool, like other kids are better at certain things and she's better
at other things and, you know, she has that all day long, like emotional ups and downs."
So in the spirit of one upmanship, Sadie has her radical methods for shaking off
that emotional rollercoaster. Adam told DeGeneres,
"When she comes home she's like, 'I'm gonna be better ... than Sunny,' you
know, it makes her feel good, so she'll, uh, she'll beat her up."
The talk show host then spoke for all of us, when she exclaimed,
"Oh! I didn't know it was going in that direction."
We certainly did not either. But despite the violence, the two young Sandlers seem
to like each other well enough, and often hang out together with their parents.
If there is one thing that is more famous for than, say, launching Ariana Grande's career,
it has to be ruthlessly sliming game-show contestants and celebrities on camera.
So, when Adam Sandler was invited to present a Kids' Choice Award,
the privilege came with a side of neon green goo. He shared on "The Ellen Show" in 2019,
"They asked me if I wanted to get slimed. I said 'no' because I've done it before and it really,
it takes over your whole weekend. Once you get slimed, you gotta clean it off, it just
doesn't come out easy. It's all over, inside parts of your body, you gotta do crazy stuff."
But unfortunately for Adam, he wasn't going to be let off that easy.
Telling his daughter Sunny about his refusal to get slimed, the little girl exclaimed,
"You said no?!" Not being able to handle upsetting his youngest,
the actor backtracked and agreed to the sliming after all. He told DeGeneres,
"I changed my mind real quick just to make her happy."
He then went on to recount the truly terrible experience it was,
and how he could not understand where the substance was coming from.
"They hit me hard in the face, and I swear to God,
I was blind. I was blind up there for like, 10 minutes, you know?"
What wouldn't people do for their kids?
When Sadie Sandler came of age according to Jewish tradition,
she got to celebrate her bat mitzvah . And as you'd expect, it was a party to remember.
The most memorable feature? Adam Levine and Maroon 5 guitarist James Valentine performed a set — so,
not your average bat mitzvah, then. Levine explained on "The Howard Stern Show,"
"This might have not been something I would've had the time to do had I not just,
literally just left 'The Voice,' so I had all this free time."
"So he texted me, and like, 's---, like why not? This sounds great!
Me and my wife will come, it'll be awesome.'"
And then there was the guest list. Valentine described how Adam Sandler was very welcoming
towards him during the event, and tried to get him to mingle with some of the more famous attendees.
"He was so cool. He was so nice to me, you do those things,
a lot of times people y'know are just talking to Adam and sort of ignoring me."
"He actually paid attention to you?"
"Totally."
Valentine added that Sandler introduced him to celebrities like Dustin Hoffman
and Kevin Nealon, which was awesome for him.
Conan O'Brien was also invited, and he sounds like he had a pretty great time,
too. He said on his own show, "Conan,"
"It was really fun, because I got to see Chris Rock, David Spade wearing yarmulkes."
"Oh, yeah, that was fun!"
So Adam Sandler is not just good at acting, then;
he's also a fantastic host. We'll be waiting patiently for our invite to future parties.
When you have a famous parent, breaking into Hollywood just comes
with the territory — just ask Kate Hudson or Angelina Jolie. As daughters to a comedy star,
Sadie and Sunny Sandler have been able to work on tons of movies with their dad Adam already,
so if their faces look familiar, that's probably why. As of 2022,
Sadie and Sunny Sandler both have 19 acting credits on their IMDb page. The girls have
appeared in "Grown Ups," "Jack and Jill" and "Just Go With It," among other great titles.
The Sandler kids also both appeared in "Hubie Halloween," released in 2020,
although they grumbled a bit about that one. Their dad said on "The Drew Barrymore Show,"
"You would think the kids would be very excited [... ] to be in a movie. By around,
I'd say if they're in a movie and they get to set at 8,
I'd say around 9:20 I'm hearing, 'How much more? Please let me leave.'"
"You know, they make it look like I'm forcing them to do it — meanwhile,
they were asking me the whole damn year, 'can I be in your next movie, Daddy?'"
It's not that Sadie and Sunny Sandler are not the biggest fans of their dad's work,
but Sandler movies just aren't their go-to content. Truth hurts, but thankfully Adam
Sandler isn't one to get easily offended. Appearing on "The Ellen Show," the actor
explained what typically happens when his kids watch one of his movies for the first time.
The talk show host assumed that the actor's kids would not be allowed to
watch any of his films because they are "R-rated,"
but he reassured her that some of them are not too bad. He told DeGeneres,
"I'll put 'em on, because they beg to see 'em, they're like, 'Please, it's not fair,
let me watch your movies, those people always yell things at you on the street,
I don't know what the heck they're talkin' about.'"
So, doting dad that he is, the actor presses play on some of his more kid-friendly flicks,
only for the reception to be less than enthusiastic. He explained,
"Every time, I'd say about 20 minutes in, and then I see them tuning out,
and then I hear them, they're nervous to say it, they're like, 'Can we watch something else?'"
Hopefully he doesn't take it personally.
"Wow, what a lovely welcome home. I missed you guys too. Welcome back, welcome back.
Okay. Not a side hug. What's with the side hug?"
"This must have cost a million dollars.” “Ah, that's chump change now. You
guys deserve the best and that's what you're going to get from now on, okay?"
Raising kids in Hollywood isn't easy — or at least we can imagine it isn't.
You have to make decisions about how often to bring them to public-facing events,
how much of their lives you share on social media, and, importantly, how to navigate
their uniquely privileged upbringing. Adam Sandler, for one, is keenly aware of these
pressures when it comes to daughters Sadie and Sunny. He once told The Toronto Sun,
"The idea of my kids being spoiled, I go to sleep thinking about it and I wake
up thinking about it. I try to do the right thing, but with the amount of money I have,
it's difficult to raise the children the way I was raised."
He does however have a tongue-in-cheek method for avoiding spoiling his children. He shared,
"I took away the West and North wing of the house from those guys.
They're not allowed in there, and so far I think that's working."
Sounds... effective?
Sadie and Sunny Sandler don't just hail from a rich family, they're also pretty well off in
their own right, as it turns out. As of now, the oldest, Sadie, is worth an estimated $1.5 million,
according to All Famous Birthday. Sadie's sister Sunny is also said to be worth about $1.5 million.
Unlike most kids their age, the money the two girls have is not made up of pocket money,
lemonade stand proceedings or after-school shifts at local stores. Instead the sisters earned their
whopping net worths by guest-starring in a number of their dad Adam Sandler's movies
over the years. So Sadie and Sunny technically do have a part-time job like many teens do,
but theirs involves memorizing lines and hanging out with movie stars,
as opposed to serving fro-yo or scanning groceries. To each their own!
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