Eminem to Appear in Adam Sandler’s Happy Gilmore 2

Eminem to Play in Happy Gilmore 2

On Dec. 6, actor Adam Sandler was a guest on The Dan Patrick Show, where Sandler spoke about the highly-anticipated release of the sequel to his 1996 cult classic golf film Happy Gilmore. During the talk, Sandler revealed that Eminem will make an appearance in the film.

“Eminem was cool,” Sandler says at the 2:33 timestamp of the interview below. “He came by and he was great.”

When pressed for more details on Shady’s role, Sandler adds, “I can’t tell you all that. But I’ve known Eminem for a long time and he’s a great guy. And he came and was funny as hell. I think we just hung out a day with Eminem. He just shot and shot and it was insane. [He] said a million things that we can use and a million things that we’re glad we have them on tape.”

Retired golfer Jack Nicklaus is also slated to have a cameo in the movie. According to Sandler, HG2 is slated to be released on Netflix next July.  This would not be the first time Sandler and Eminem have worked together in a movie. Slim made a cameo in the film Funny People starring Sandler, Seth Rogan, Jonah Hill and Leslie Man in 2009.

In other recent Eminem news, the rapper is currently mourning the loss of his mother Debbie, who passed away following a battle with lung cancer at the age of 69 last week.

Check out Adam Sandler’s interview below.

Watch Adam Sandler Talk About Eminem Being in Happy Gilmore 2

See 7 Movie Roles That Rappers Turned Down

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Will Smith

Movies:The Matrix and Django Unchained

Roles: Neo in The Matrix and Django in Django Unchained

Will Smith has pivoted so well from hip-hop to Hollywood that music fans of a certain age may not even recall his rap career. While he’s had plenty of accolades on the movie front, Will could have reportedly had two more iconic roles on his resume.

Could you have seen The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as Neo in The Matrix? That was once a thought, but he turned down the role that ultimately went to Keanu Reeves. Last year, Will told the story on his official YouTube channel, implying that the Wackowskis, the film’s writer/directors, gave him a pitch about the 1999 movie’s dynamic cinematography that was simply too much for him to visualize. Then he admitted that he’s “not proud” of the decision.

Aside from brushing off the Neo offer, years later, Will also rejected Quentin Tarantino’s offer to star in 2012’s Django Unchained because, as he told Entertainment Weekly in 2013, Will felt “Django wasn’t the lead, so it was like, I need to be the lead.” Jamie Foxx ended up taking the role and knocking it out of the park.

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Drake

Movie:The Heist

Role: Unknown

Prior to famed movie producer Harvey Weinstein being sentenced to 23 years in prison for committing a criminal sexual act in the first degree and third-degree rape, Drake seemingly found out about his reputation and reportedly refused Weinstein’s movie offer.

Drizzy was reportedly offered a starring role in a film called The Heist. Drake’s manager, Adel “Future The Prince” Nur, told The Hollywood Reporter in 2017 that “I vetted [Weinstein] with five people and got bad feedback about working with him,” which kept the music star out of a troubling orbit. Apparently, Weinstein also wanted Drake to produce the film. The movie has yet to come to fruition and it’s unclear which character the Toronto rapper was asked to play.

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Ja Rule

Movie:2 Fast 2 Furious

Role: Edwin

In the early 2000s, Ja Rule was on top of the world. He was a multi-platinum artist, at the head of one of the rap game’s most powerful crews in Murder Inc. He was even making inroads in Hollywood, with a small role as Edwin in the 2001 racing film The Fast and The Furious. Who could have seen how lucrative the franchise would ultimately become? Ja didn’t see it when he blew off late movie director John Singleton’s overtures to star in the 2003 sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious.

Singleton told Grantland in 2015 that “Ja got too big for himself. He turned it down. He turned down a half a million dollars…He was kinda playing me to the side and I was like, ‘What? What is this shit?’ This was all initiated by me. I then made a call. I called Ludacris,” who ultimately got the role.

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Tupac Shakur

Movie:Menace to Society

Role: Sharif

In 1992, Tupac Shakur was tapped to play Sharif in the gritty coming of age film Menace to Society. The character, ultimately played by Vonte Sweet, was a reformed knucklehead known for kicking knowledge that no one in his crew actually heeded. Tupac wasn’t fond of the one-dimensional portrayal of Sharif, as would-be co-stars Tyrin Turner and MC Eiht can recall.

Turner told MTV in 2013 that Tupac was visibly “annoyed” during a cast reading, while MC Eiht recently said that the late rapper questioned the Hughes brothers, the movie’s directors, about why Sharif’s Muslim conversion wasn’t explained in the script. Tupac’s dissatisfaction with the role led to him reportedly causing trouble on the set, which eventually got him fired.

He later got into a fight with Allen Hughes at a Spice 1 music video shoot. This isn’t the most textbook example of a turned-down role. But it’s safe to assume that if ’Pac was invested in Sharif, he would’ve received recognition out of the situation instead of assault and battery charges.

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Eminem

Movie:Southpaw and Unknown Project

Roles: Billy Hope and a Gang Member

It’s common knowledge that Eminem is a rapper’s rapper. When he gets the urge to put a project together, everything else goes out the window—even a previously agreed upon movie role. In 2010, Eminem jumped onboard for the boxing film Southpaw, which would have been his first fictional film portrayal since 2002’s semi-autobiographical 8 Mile. Father-son movie producers Alan and Peter Riche were on the fast track to having the film put together, but other artistic inspiration came calling for Eminem.

Alan recalled what happened in an interview with Business Insider in 2015. “We were told that he really loved it, but that he feels he’s a musician first and an actor second and he had a lot of inner energy going on for his next album [Marshall Mathers LP 2] and that’s where his muse was taking him.” Jake Gyllenhaal ended up taking the role in the 2015 film that inspired Em so much he put the soundtrack out on Shady Records, complete with two of his songs.

Slim Shady also could have starred alongside partner-in-rhyme 50 Cent in a film where the two would play rival gang members in Detroit. The Shady Records founder decided against the role because he wanted the film to be more like The Warriors. 50 recently shared Em’s response with Q Magazine. “I said, The Warriors? What the fuck, Em? The Warriors? Did you just hear me say they want to give you $8 million and you don’t have to leave Detroit?’ He didn’t give a fuck.” When you’re Eminem, it’s clear money isn’t everything.