Adam Sandler Q&A

7 months ago 20th Apr 10:57

After kicking off his career on The Cosby Show and then Saturday Night Live Adam Sandler moved into movies and is one of the box office's biggest draws when it comes to comedy movies.

Bedtime Stories is released on DVD 27, April and follows Skeeter Bronson (Sandler), a hapless bachelor who is forced to do odd jobs in the hotel his father used to own. When his sister Wendy (Courtney Cox) asks him to look after her children so she can job hunt in Arizona, Skeeter realises he hardly knows his niece and nephew.

In a bid to entertain the kids, Skeeter concocts far-fetched bedtime stories set in far away lands, always casting himself as the hero. Then the trio’s tall-tales start to have bizarre parallels in the real world.

Gum balls fall out of the sky in Medieval England, giant bogie monsters escape in outer space, and dwarves thwart Skeeter’s attempts to kiss a fair lady in the Wild West. Aware of the power of his storytelling Skeeter tries to manipulate his real life with disastrous and hilarious consequences.

You have an incredible success rate so was there pressure that every movie matches the success of the previous one?

I don’t even know what my movies have done [at the box office] I am that cool! (jokes) I make my movies and then I walk away. Then people come up to me and say 'Wow, what a big hit' and I go, I don’t want to hear.

I don’t want to know if they did good or bad, I just want to make movies. So there is no pressure. I have always been that guy and I always will be that guy.

Which bedtime stories that you were told were your favorites? And did you ever imagine that this would be where you are now?

No, I didn’t think about that when I was a little kid. I knew I was destined for greatness, I just didn’t know what. (jokes) I was always very good at chess and for a while I thought would be it.

No Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited that my father was talking to me (jokes). I was like longer father, stay in the room with me (jokes) can I get a hug also? No, just the story.

Which bedtime stories were you told?

The Little Engine That Could that was a big one in my house. I have been reading it to my kid, I don’t love it as much as an adult (jokes). My kid is two and a half and she says 'I think I can'

It is very sweet when she says it, I like it when she says it. I don’t necessarily love reading it very day, but I do. What else did I like as a kid? I liked Willie Wonka just the movie, no-one ever read that to me.

I would ask my father and he’d say the movie’s coming on in three months. (jokes) Help me out with more stories I might have heard as a kid? Little Red Riding Hood? Yeah, I know that, it’s a great one.

Which bedtime stories do you tell your daughter?

I tell my two and a half year old the Little Engine story. We do free-styling where I just improvise a story. I ask what she wants to hear and she right now is obsessed with food so she will say waffles!