Adam Sandler is placing Travis Kelce to work.
On The Tonight Present on Tuesday, the comic—iconic for his roles in Pleased Gilmore, Billy Madison, and extra—revealed to host Jimmy Fallon that the sequel to the 1996 comedy traditional a couple of hockey participant turned golfer is about to start filming in simply a few weeks.
Sandler, 57, added that the brand new movie will characteristic a forged together with actual skilled golfers and cameos from celebrities like Chiefs tight finish Kelce, 34.
“That is taking place. We’re on the point of shoot it in New Jersey. We labored onerous on the script. We didn’t wish to let anyone down. Folks have been asking me for a very long time. We’re actually enthusiastic about it. We wrote our a**es off,” Sandler stated, earlier than including, “We’ve a pleasant one thing for Travis.”
The actor, who’s writing the sequel with unique Pleased Gilmore co-writer Tim Herlihy, gushed about Kelce, saying, “He’s a really good man. You guys would love him in actual life. What an enormous, good-looking man. Humorous and funky as hell. He’s a stud, and he’s so humorous.”
Kelce initially expressed his enthusiasm for Sandler, saying he’s a “big fan of the Sandman” and would do “something” to get a job within the movie on the Might 29 episode of his and brother Jason Kelce’s podcast, New Heights. Netflix confirmed the film can be taking place that very same month.
“I’ll be a f**king additional… something to get round Pleased Gilmore, an Adam Sandler movie or set—depend me in,” Kelce added. “I’ll do something within the film. I’ll be a part of it any means I presumably can.”
Kelce has been breaking into the performing enterprise with upcoming roles in Ryan Murphy’s FX sequence Grotesquerie, which premieres Wednesday, September 25, on FX, and the Lionsgate action-comedy movie Unfastened Cannons.
In one other episode of New Heights, Kelce teased that he had a “large function within the present” Grotesquerie.
“Proper now, I’m simply taking it scene by scene and attempting to make it possible for I keep in mind my traces,” Kelce stated of his performing debut. “Like I stated, I’m very newbie at this.”
