{"id":276675,"date":"2025-07-20T06:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/276675\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T06:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:09:12","slug":"adam-sandlers-happy-jacked-stud-mjf-is-his-fake-son-in-happy-gilmore-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/276675\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Sandler\u2019s happy jacked stud MJF is his fake son in Happy Gilmore 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

He\u2019s not the only wrestler in the new Netflix movie Happy Gilmore 2, but (a) we don\u2019t know much about Becky Lynch and Nikki Bella\u2019s roles yet and (b) based on the trailers<\/a> Maxwell Jacob Friedman has a bigger part as one of the main character\u2019s children<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MJF is also the one who Adam Sandler and Julie Bowen are gushing about him in an interview Mr. & Mrs. Gilmore did with Chris Van Vliet to promote the movie, out July 25 on the streamer. Van Vliet posted the clip<\/a> on his Facebook today (July 19), and Max re-posted it on X\/Twitter<\/a>. That\u2019s embedded below.<\/p>\n

Van Vliet mentions Lynch as well in his question, so there may be a quote about her in a non-MJF-centric edit of the interview. Here we get their answers about working with the 29-year-old former AEW World champ, and it\u2019s high praise.<\/p>\n

Sandler\u2019s initial response is, \u201cFunny as hell.\u201d Bowen chips in a, \u201cSo funny\u201d, before her co-star continues, \u201cWhat a great kid. Love him. Family member.\u201d<\/p>\n

His on-screen mom was concerned when young Maxwell left the production to \u201cgo have a fight\u201d. Sandler corrects her on the terminology, but incorrectly recollects that MJF\u2019s match was at Madison Square Garden. Either way, he came back bruised but without the chipped tooth Bowen was worried about.<\/p>\n

The Punch-Drunk Love and Grown-Ups star then closes things out with:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat kid is jacked and he\u2019s a stud \u2014 I\u2019m happy to say he\u2019s my fake son forever. I love my fake son. I love him in real life\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Check it out:<\/p>\n

It won\u2019t help him when he uses that Casino Gauntlet contract to challenge AEW World champ Hangman Page, but his fake dad & mom\u2019s words certainly won\u2019t make it harder for MJF to get his next Hollywood audition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He\u2019s not the only wrestler in the new Netflix movie Happy Gilmore 2, but (a) we don\u2019t know…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[26594,2282,258,4080,77,87204,163,104410,4381,30773,256,10515,104407,104409,2955,35248,259,16430,104408,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-276675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-adam","9":"tag-aew","10":"tag-cageside","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-fake","14":"tag-front-page","15":"tag-gilmore","16":"tag-happy","17":"tag-his","18":"tag-in","19":"tag-is","20":"tag-jacked","21":"tag-mjf","22":"tag-s","23":"tag-sandler","24":"tag-seats","25":"tag-son","26":"tag-stud","27":"tag-uk","28":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114884074882667947","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}