Chris Rock, David Spade, Adam Sandler, Kevin James and Rob Schneider at the New York City premiere of "Grown Ups"
On paper, the cast of "Grown Ups" reads like a dream team of goofball comedies. The stars of the film are Adam Sandler (who was also a writer and producer of "Grown Ups"), Chris Rock, David Spade, Kevin James and Rob Schneider. In "Grown Ups," the five comedians play friends and former basketball teammates from their childhood, who are now in their 40s, and they have reunited at the funeral of their former basketball coach. After the funeral, the five pals go on a lakeside vacation with their families, as they get into embarrassing comedic situations and grapple with the meaning of growing up and maturity.
Sandler is high-powered Hollywood agent Lenny Feder, Rock is stay-at-home-dad Kurt McKenzie, Spade is partying womanizer Marcus Higgins, James is unsophisticated lug Eric Lamonsoff and Schneider is New Age enthusiast Rob Hilliard. All of the buddies are married with children, except for perennial bachelor Marcus. In real life, all five actors are friends and fathers, and all of them except for James are alumni of "Saturday Night Live." At the Los Angeles press conference for "Grown Ups," Sandler, Rock, Spade, James and "Grown Ups" director Dennis Dugan gathered to tell behind-the-scenes stories about the movie — and, of course, tell plenty of jokes.
Chris Rock, David Spade, Kevin James, Rob Schneider and Adam Sandler in "Grown Ups"
Adam, as a father yourself, was "Grown Ups" a way to maybe exorcise the fear that you might have that you are raising elitist Beverly Hills children that turn out terribly? Secondly, as the co-writer, did you write with all of these guys in mind?
Sandler: Yes, to the second part of the question, I did. Me and Fred Wolf wrote the movie. The whole idea was about putting together old friends that get to hang out for a weekend. These guys are my old friends, so it made total sense. I’m glad they said yes to it.
The idea of my kids being spoiled, I go to sleep thinking about it. I wake up thinking about. I’m trying to do the right thing. With the amount of money I have, it’s difficult to raise children the way I was raised. But I took away the west and north wing of the house for those guys. So they’re not allowed in there.
Spade: It’s hard to pretend you’re broke. They figure it out after a while.
Rock: My kids don’t have a trust fund; they have a debt fund. When I die, they’re $4 million in the hole.
Spade: He meant Rob Schneider’s kids.
David Spade, Kevin James, Chris Rock and Adam Sandler in "Grown Ups"
Adam, what drives you to succeed? And what kind of car do you drive?
Sandler: I go Cadillac. I have a hybrid, too — and it does work better, by the way. It does use less gas.
I don’t know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can. I never was like that as a kid. I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn’t the best at that. But this comedy thing and making movies and stuff, I love it so much that I do get driven to push myself as hard as I can.
Do you guys feel like grown-ups and when did it actually dawn on you that you’re actually a grown-up? Or do you even feel like one yet?
Spade: I have problems with it. I’m probably the most little kid still out of this group. But I am clinging. It’s not cute anymore. I think when I bought a house, that’s when I thought I felt like that’s a grown-up thing to do.
James: I think I’m playing grown-up because I have kids now. But I don’t feel grown-up yet.
Rock: I felt it when I lost a house.
Spade: You felt normal.
Sandler: When you’re around the kids you feel like you act the most grown-up, just because you’re supposed to lead.
James: You feel like you’re playing your father, right?
Sandler: Yes, yes, exactly. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.
David Spade, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock and Kevin James in "Grown Ups"
Adam, in "Grown Ups," you don’t punch anybody. Do you think you’re maturing as an actor?
Sandler: Nope! I just couldn’t find a good spot to hit anybody. There was no bad guy in this movie, so nobody got hit.
So you take the high road in "Grown Ups"?
Sandler: A little more than usual. But instead of me hitting something, I asked Kevin James to hit the tree. It’s a little easier on my back.
You guys were at a Lakers game recently. Can you talk a little about the basketball angle in "Grown Ups"?
Rock: I told Kobe [Bryant], "Oh, it looks like the Rogaine is starting to work."
Spade: What would the "Grown Ups" [stars] do in this situation? "Kobe, we pretend we’re playing basketball. We have no idea" …
Sandler: I grew up playing church-league basketball; it was a big part of my town. I thought that instead of doing a movie about high school, I just thought it would be easier if we made it church-league basketball kids who, when you see them in the past, it’s easier to buy little kids as us instead of high-school kids who don’t. It would look a little closer to who we were if they were little. I thought like sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship and coming up with funny things.
That’s kind of what the movie is. Our kids are that age in the movie. We thought that that’s when it starts. You see the contrast of childhood now compared to what we were like as kids. So that’s why I picked the 12-year-old basketball kind of thing. That was a big part of my life. These guys all play a little bit of ball. We just thought that would be interesting.
Rob Schneider, Chris Rock, Kevin James, Adam Sandler and David Spade in "Grown Ups"
In a couple of words, how would you describe yourselves at age 12?
Rock: Gay.
No, really, what were you like?
Spade: Nerdy, reserved, awkward.
James: Athletic, beating the nerds up. No. I was fit, believe it or not. Fit. Go with fit.
Sandler: Oh yeah, look at the pictures.
James: I was fit.
Sandler: He was in good shape, K.J.
James: For then.
Sandler: From 11 to 14. No, how old?
James: Until stand-up comedy. Stand-up ruined me.
Rock: And then the late-night comedy.
James: Yes, late-night in diners and drinking late and waking up at 3 o’clock and then doing it again the next night can ruin a body.
Kevin James in "Grown Ups"
What were some of your favorite things are that you like to collect or what your hobbies are?
Spade: I was a coin collector. Rock says he didn’t have the luxury of collecting money as a child, but I had coins. I didn’t know I was nerdy at the time until I felt my 16-D Mercury Dime that was in uncirculated condition might be a panty dropper, and it turned out not to be. Surprisingly, the Benjamin Franklin Halves Mint set did some damage. But yeah, I did that.
Then I stumbled into skateboarding, which kind of was cooler. But I wasn’t aware of what was cool. My dad wasn’t around, so he couldn’t shake me and say, "Drop the coin-collecting bit. It’s not where you want to go." So that and the spelling bee and the chess, I think I had to figure out for myself.
What do you like now?
Spade: Nothing. No, I still like some of the stuff, skateboarding. I golf now. Just stupid things, but I think I was more interesting back then because I was trying a bunch of different hobbies and collections. You know what I mean? I did rocks, all this dumb stuff. But now it’s just trying to stay afloat and just get through the days.
Sandler: His hobbies now apparently are monologues.
Spade: My hobbies are run-on sentences.
Sandler: Last night I couldn’t sleep. It was like 2 in the morning. I was thinking, "What can I do?" I’m watching TV. I’m like, "Let me do something else." I’m not going to fall asleep for a few hours. What are my hobbies? There was the masturbation option. I skipped that because just knowing my kids are down the hall, and I felt psychotic. So I went with watching more TV. I couldn’t come up with anything. I was going, "God, read a book." Then I was like, "Where do I keep the books?" I’ve got nothing to do but watch TV.
Rock: You’ve got to get the iPad.
Sandler: I know.
Rock: We’ve got the iPad.
David Spade, Kevin James and Adam Sandler in "Grown Ups"
Sandler: So what do you do?
Rock: I’ve got a bunch of books in there.
Spade: You watch TV on it.
James: I think this might shock a lot of people but I like food. I’m a connoisseur of food — but bad food. I like bad food. Not high-end.
Sandler: Double cheese and onion soup last night.
James: You brought me to a fancy restaurant and I don’t love fancy restaurants. I like Kraft macaroni and cheese out of a box. You know that type of stuff. And making it and doctoring it up myself.
Sandler: Yeah. You were mad at the macaroni and cheese last night.
James: Where did I want to go last night?
Sandler: Carl’s Jr.
James: I wanted to go to Carl’s Jr.
Sandler: I talked him out of Carl’s Jr., and brought him to a nice place, and he was so angry.
James: I was angry. I’m not a fancy food guy. I don’t want three carrots on a plate. That pisses me off.
David Spade, Rob Schneider and Chris Rock in "Grown Ups"
Adam, you know all these guys so well and you wrote this for them. Did anybody do anything that surprised you? How much ad-libbing might have gone on?
Sandler: There was a lot of ad-libbing and a lot of jokes these guys brought. I mean, I wasn’t shocked by anybody. Everybody who watches the movie, friends of ours talk to me and they go, "Wow, Spade is…" They love Spade. I think they’re used to every one of us doing good work, and not used to David doing anything good.
Dennis, do you want to talk about the ad-libbing that went on while you guys were shooting?
Dugan: The whole idea was that when Sandler first sat down and said, "Let’s do this movie. We’ll all go to a lake, and we’ll do a movie about a bunch of people at a lake." And it’s all these guys. So my job basically was to say, "Action." They’d talk, sometimes for 40 minutes. Then I’d say cut because we ran out of tape. We’d put a new tape in and I’d say action and then later on when they ran out of really funny stuff to say I’d say, "Cut!" That was the easiest job in the entire world.
Sandler: That’s not entirely true. We worked hard. We did a lot of helping out and it brought us into the right place and focused us.
James: And rowed to work every day.
Sandler: Oh, yes. Dennis lived across the lake, on the other side of the lake. Every morning he would row to work.
Adam Sandler and Dennis Dugan on the set of "Grown Ups"
Adam and Dennis, you two are working on a movie called "Jack and Jill." Can you tell us about that film?
Rock: I'm not in it.
Sandler: Not yet. You might be, by the way. I might call in a favor soon. But in "Jack and Jill," I play me and I play my twin sister. The man version of me is doing OK. He’s got a family out in L.A., and the twin sister of me is in the Bronx and comes out to L.A. for Thanksgiving, and then refuses to leave and is spoiling the man version of my family’s life a little bit.
Did your kids see you as Jill?
Sandler: There’s a mock-up picture of me in my house that we made. My daughter, Sadie, loves it. Every time I talk about "Grown Ups" is coming out, [she says], "Jack and Jill?" "I have to do ‘Grown Ups’ first." "And then ‘Jack and Jill’?" "Well no, I’m doing one with [Jennifer] Aniston that’s going to be good." "’Jack and Jill?’" "We’ll get to ‘Jack and Jill.’" She’s excited about it.
Adam Sandler, Kevin James and Chris Rock at the New York City premiere of "Grown Ups"
In "Grown Ups," your characters are reunited at the funeral of your former basketball coach. What did you think about former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, who passed away in June 2010?
Rock: [He says jokingly] I played for UCLA.
Sandler: I love Wooden. I love that documentary on Wooden that’s been on [TV]. It’s a great documentary on UCLA and how cool Wooden is and how much his players looked up to him and how the guy never said a curse word in his life. He just demanded total respect. Everybody who was on his team was there to win and win for him … This guy is one of the greatest of all time; [he’s] a stud.
Adam, Kevin and Chris — as native New Yorkers, where do you stand on LeBron James possibly going to play for the New York Knicks?
Rock: Of course we want him!
Sandler: That would be nice to have LeBron.
Rock: It would be nice to have.
James: We need something!
Rock: I’m not going to hold my breath though.
James: We’d take [Rob] Schneider now!
Sandler: How about Nate [Robinson] playing for the Celtics at the championships, knowing at the beginning of the season he was playing for the Knicks? How insane that his life change. LeBron? We were talking about it last night. Our prediction is that LeBron stays in Cleveland.
Chris Rock and Dennis Dugan on the set of "Grown Ups"
Dennis, can you talk about "Grown Ups" being an environmentally conscious set?
Dugan: I’m a longtime environmental freak. So at Sony, we’ve done everything we can to make every production as green as possible, including getting rid of hardwoods, using Luan [plywood] on our sets. I also helped Sony develop their environmental program, and now it’s a mandate all through the studio.
We did everything the Sony book describes and more. The trucks don’t idle. We only use sustainable woods to build our sets. I either row my boat or I’m driven to the set — not in a SUV, but I go in a Prius or an electric car.
James: [He says jokingly] Which mad eit tough for Dugan, because I hate the environment, so I was just lighting fires and starting trucks, so he would counter-balance it.
Dugan: The other thing we did was we didn’t use any generators. The city of Essex put in electric panels for us so we weren’t polluting the air with our portable generators.
Rock: I’m not a green guy. Slave ships were made out of trees. F*ck trees! If I see a tree, I burn it down!
David Spade, Chris Rock, Kevin James and Adam Sandler in in "Grown Ups"
Adam, can you talk about writing "Born to Be a Star," which you didn't star in, and are you and Chris Rock producing a film on Richard Pryor?
Sandler: Yeah, yeah we are doing that movie. Marlon Wayans is going to play Pryor. We’ll see what happens. We’ll see what happens. It hasn’t really got rolling yet, just talking about it right now. But I enjoyed writing it. I had this idea for this "Born to Be a Star." I’m about 15 years too old for it. So ["Born to Be a Star" co-writer] Nick Swardson, I think is a funny kid, so we wrote the movie for him.
Is it a different kind of creative satisfaction for you?
Sandler: Same stuff, same stuff. I like sitting and writing with my buddies. That movie was great, because I helped write it with ["Born to Be a Star" co-writers Allen] Covert and [Nick] Swardson. Then they went and shot it, and I had nothing to do with that. Then I got to watch it and laugh. That’s actually a nice feeling.
Rock: It’s kind of like your "Pootie Tang."
Sandler: It’s very much like "Pootie Tang." But you’re in "Pootie Tang." I didn’t even step foot near that ["Born to Be a Star"] set.
Chris Rock, Kevin James, Rob Schneider, David Spade and Adam Sandler in "Grown Ups"
If you could reunite with old friends, what would you do?
Sandler: I would like to do this sort of reunion, if I was having one, hang out at a house and do fun stuff on a lake. That’s a good place for it. In real life, it ain’t much of a reunion. We see each other enough. It’s not like this gang hasn’t seen each other in 30 years. We see each other a lot.
In fact, I see my friends from growing up a lot. There are no reunions in my life. I see everybody too much. I see them every time I go back to see my family in New Hampshire. When I’m in town, they show up at the house. When Rock, when he’s in L.A., I see him. I see Kevin all the time. I see Spade whenever I can. And Schneider, I see a lot, too.
Is there a consensus among the four of you of who is actually the funniest?
Sandler: Everybody’s got their own thing. I’ll tell you, Spade is incredibly funny. He drops the most destruction bombs on you. He’s quick as hell.
Spade: No, the fun thing about this was everybody — I think more for the audience, that if you like even two out of the five of us, you’ll do fine in this movie.
Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Adam Sandler in "Grown Ups"
Not in movie. Who’s the funniest in real life?
Spade: Oh, hanging out…
Sandler: Everybody’s got their moments. K.J. is incredibly funny. He has different ways of being funny in conversation. How’s this? When K.J. texts me, I laugh like a buffoon for like five minutes alone. I don’t write that LOL because I’m a comedian and I think other comedians would go, "Are you f*cking kidding me? LOL?" So I just write, "Good one!"
Spade: It is hard to fall in an LOL. I’ve been fighting it for a while.
Sandler: I haven’t said it yet, I don’t think. Rock is one of the funniest guys I’ve ever seen in my life with just summing up something and just having a different slant on it. You’re just like, "That is amazingly accurate and I can’t believe I’ve never said that out loud. I never even thought that." He like makes you think straight. His comedy’s just genius.
James: Some of the hardest laughs I’ve had in my entire life are from the Sandman. Honestly, just crying. As a comedian you get used to it. So a lot of times you’ll think something’s funny and you just kind of [nod]. That’s what your laughter comes to. That’s what it’s down to now.
Spade: It’s turned into a nod.
James: Because when you do it constantly … right, exactly.
Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade and Adam Sandler in "Grown Ups"
Spade: Yes, you go, "That’s good. That’s good."
James: And it is good. But he makes me laugh out loud. I mean, crying.
Rock: Sandler in "Chuck & Larry" is about as hard as I’ve ever laughed.
Dugan: The nice thing about being in with these guys is generally when comics are together they’re kind of competitive and don’t really respect each other. These guys just like making each other laugh. There’s no overt egos there. They just enjoy whoever’s making the other three laugh. They’re all happy.
Sandler: For the record [Rob] Schneider is …
James: Schneider’s very funny as well.
Sandler: One of the funniest guys you’ll ever meet.
Spade: Schneider’s a great cook.
Sandler: He is ridiculously fast and funny. We miss him here right now.
James: but you don’t miss his feet in those sandals.
Sandler: They’re soft but thick.
Rob Schneider and Adam Sandler in "Grown Ups"
Can you talk about the scenes with your "Grown Up" characters shooting playing a version of Russian roulette by shooting an arrow in the air and seeing where it lands? Have you ever done that in real life?
Sandler: That was Fred Wolf’s idea.
Spade: Yeah, that was the other writer, Fred Wolf.
So he’s done that in real life?
Spade: I guess so. It sounds so dumb, but it’s was kind perfect for the movie. When you’re reading it you have the same reaction as when you’re doing it: "Why are we doing this? This couldn’t be dumber." ….
Rock: Do we have a disclaimer at the end of the movie?" Do not shoot an arrow in the air and run!"
Spade: It’s like "Jackass": "Most of these things are dumb" … Yeah, that was a fun scene, running away in slow motion. It’s hard to run away in slow-motion.
David Spade, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock, Kevin James and Adam Sandler in "Grown Ups"
Chris, what do you think of the New York Knicks in the most recent season? And are you going to move from Brooklyn to Hollywood?
Sandler: No, you ain’t going to do that. Be careful. The Knicks have been giving you those seats for a long time.
Rock: The Knicks give me those seats, so I can’t go too hard on them. They’re doing the right thing. They have a new coach, they’re under the cap. If they don’t get LeBron or [Dwayne] Wade, they can’t give the money to somebody else. They can’t create another Allan Houston thing, where some guy is getting all the money. It’s LeBron or Wade. They’re the only two max players who are available. Those other guys are but, but they’re not …
James: I think I’m actually going to jump off the Knicks, and I’m going to become a Globetrotters fan. I don’t know if you’ve seen this team, but they are down so often, and they keep coming back. They win! They’ve really got an amazing record. They’re slow starters, but these Globetrotters, just watch for them. I don’t think they’ve ever lost. They’re like 1,000-0. They’re always down. And then there’s confetti!
Judd Apatow movies are known for having male nudity. Dennis, you seem to have a thing for public urination in your films. Can you comment on that?
Dugan: it just happens. If you’re working 16, 18 hours a day, which we are, and you’re under constant pressure by the studio not to spend their money, not to go overtime, guys have to pee, and so we film it.
Rob Schneider, Adam Sandler and Chris Rock in "Grown Ups"
What funny stuff might end up on the "Grown Ups" DVD?
Sandler: I’m sure there’ll be a lot stuff on the DVD that we babbled about, but it ain’t that funny, and it ain’t in the movie.
Spade: It’s always fun to watch the deleted scenes: "Here’s the stuff that wasn’t funny enough to be in the movie." And you watch it and go, "Oh, I see. OK." I think there are funny things [that could end up on the DVD]. There was one where we did a 40-minute take. And there’s stuff in there that I remember was so funny. Sometimes you just pick … You can only use one and move on in that scene … Sometimes it has to go somewhere else. You pick the best stuff. I think there can be something there for other people.
Adam, do you plan to be a guest judge on "The Gong Show" with Dave Attell?
Sandler: Oh, wow, I don’t know. I’m just going to watch.
Rock: Are you producing that?
Sandler: Our company is. Attell is a funny boy. I saw a couple [of "Gong Show" episodes]. I went down to the studio and watched. It’s pretty disgusting.
Rob Schneider, Alexys Nycole Sanchez, Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jake Goldberg and Cameron Boyce in "Grown Ups"
Is Dave Attell’s "Gong Show" going to be in the same vein as the original "Gong Show"?
Sandler: Yeah, but a little more updated with the filth.
Whose idea was it for Chris Rock’s Kurt McKenzie character to be a wife-dominated, stay-at-home dad who can’t cook?
Spade: That was Smigel’s idea.
Sandler: Robert Smigel read the script and suggested that. We didn’t originally have that. I think we might’ve had you be a referee/p>
Rock: I was a basketball ref up until two days before we started shooting.
Spade: He showed up in his ref outfit the first day. Did you read the latest [script]?
Sandler: He mastered the whistle.
David Spade, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock, Kevin James and Adam Sandler in "Grown Ups"
Was the bunion for Kurt’s mother-in-law in the original script?
Sandler: Yeah, it was in there. And she came with one, too.
James: She brought her own. Just BYOB.
Spade: Just put a little powder on it.
Chris, news came recently that you’re going to be working on a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s "High and Low." Where is that? Do you know?
Rock: Me, Mike Nichols and — what’s his name— Scott Rudin are talking a lot right now. It’s just a lot of talk right now and getting the notes together.
Chris Rock, Maya Rudolph, China Anne McClain, David Spade, Nadji Jeter Adam Sandler and Kevin James in "Grown Ups"
Do you know what the tone of the film’s going to be? Will it be similar to Kurosawa’s, in San Francisco?
Rock: In New York. That’s all I’ll give you. It’ll be in New York.
Spade: Because that’s all you have.
Rock: That’s all I’ve got.
Sandler: If you want more information, just call "What’s His Name."
Rock: Scott Rudin!
Can you tell us about casting Salma Hayek in "Grown Ups"?
Sandler: We talked about doing a movie for a long time. Salma was available. She almost was in the "Zohan" [film], she almost was in a bunch of movies, and it didn’t time out right. This one timed out great. It was fun being married to Salma in the movie. She’s a great girl.
David Spade, Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Rob Schneider and Chris Rock in "Grown Ups"
You guys are courtside regulars at basketball games. Was it hard for you to learn the plays that you used in "Grown Ups"?
James: No!
Sandler: It wasn’t too hard.
Rock: It wasn’t that hard, right?
Spade: It was more fun, but we felt like kids, because they had stand-ins who would run it.
Sandler: Right. Like real athletes playing us in the beginning.
Spade: So you have some college kid going, "All right, Spade" … And then I do it wrong, and then he walks out going, "Dude, what are you doing? I think I did what you did." But we’d practice in the gym, and then we waited for the hottest days to shoot them, apparently …
Did you feel like you had to hold back on the curse words because you were working with so man kids?
Sandler: There wasn’t too much cursing in this movie.
Rock: There really wasn’t.
Sandler: Cursing around kids? Yeah, you feel guilty immediately afterward.
Rock: You really do.
David Spade and Adam Sandler in "Grown Ups"
Was there a "swear box" on the "Grown Ups" set?
Sandler: No.
Dugan: There was a swear box on our last one.
Sandler: Yeah, these two kids I just shot a movie with, who said, "Two bucks a curse word," and I think we owe them $1,400.
What’s your favorite curse word?
Spade: Oh my gosh. That’s not it. I can’t think of a good one. Ding dong? By the way, I curse the most around the kids, because I’m not used to it, everyone telling me to shut up. But that’s kind of in the movie at diner, when I say, "We’re all getting wasted." That’s kind of from real life, I think — because Adam, when I come over, everyone tightens up a little bit, because I don’t know how to act around all the families and kids.
Sandler: I don’t know if I have a favorite curse word, but my favorite curse sentence is one that I’ve heard David say a lot: "My condom f*cking broke!"
Spade: It’s my least favorite.
Chris Rock, Kevin James, Rob Schneider, David Spade and Adam Sandler on the set of "Grown Ups"
David, can you talk about the scene in "Grown Ups" where you show your naked backside?
Spade: I asked if I could show my wiener at some point, and we settled on my behind. No, Adam just came to me with that one morning and said, "When you leave, you’re a guy who’s not used to being around families, you’re used to sleeping alone, and you just walk out naked; you don’t care."
And it’s the one day I didn’t wear makeup on my butt … because I didn’t know what you were supposed to do. Is this going to look like the lighting from [grocery store] Ralph’s? I saw it and I was like, "Aye, aye, aye! Girls have got to put up with this for years!" I’m no prize. I’m going to go back and high-five them all, because it was very sweet of them not to say anything. But it’s a little "porky," I think Adam said.
Sandler: No, it’s cute! It’s plump!
Spade: Plump. OK. So it was scary. I regret it.
Sandler: Remember you said, "We’ve got to eliminate that one pimple"? And it turned out to be the a-hole itself. You were like, "That pimple!" And I said, "I think that’s the hole." You don’t remember that?
Spade: So yeah, I see a lot of nudity in the future. I’m inching my way to non-tasteful nudity.
James: I just want to say one more thing. Spade’s ass is also the model in the Huggies commercial. Compare them. You’ll see.
Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Kevin James, Chris Rock and David Spade in "Grown Ups"
Kevin, are you doing a sequel for "Paul Blart: Mall Cop"?
James: Not now. Not yet.
What are you doing next?
James: I’m in Chicago working on movie ["Cheaters"] right now with Ron Howard and Vince Vaughn. I play Vince Vaughn’s [friend], we’re buddies, and I’m married to Winona Ryder, and she cheats on me and he spots it. So he’s got to tell me.
Is this a tragedy?
James: No, no, it’s comedy. But it’s also got some heavy moments. It’s good. So it’s cool.
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