Adam Sandler doesn’t need bars or red carpets to be happy.
The actor, who was born on September 9, 1966, in Brooklyn, New York, said it bluntly: “I don’t like going to bars or restaurants. I don’t like doing things related to fame”.
And right there, he explained something his followers have been guessing for years: that’s why he plays clumsy, ordinary men who also don’t fit in outside their small circle of friends.
From Happy Gilmore to Uncut Gems, via Billy Madison and The Waterboy, his characters always have something in common with him: they prefer sportswear to luxuries, and a dinner at home with the family to any public event.
His formula, say those who know him, has never changed: work hard, make people laugh, and stay close to his loved ones.