Bad Bunny Secures Latest Role in Netflix-Led Happy Gilmore Sequel
Photo Credit: Bad Bunnyās Instagram
Bad Bunny secures his latest acting role, joining Adam Sandler in the Netflix-led āHappy Gilmoreā sequel.Benito Antonio Martinez OcasiĆ³, better known by his stage name, Bad Bunny, has landed his latest acting role as he joins the cast of Adam Sandlerās āHappy Gilmoreā sequel. Kyle Newacheck, who directed Sandler in the Netflix comedy, Murder Mystery, heads the Netflix-led sequel to the 1996 comedy, āHappy Gilmoreā, in which Sandler plays a professional hockey player who finds a talent for golf and reluctantly goes on tour, becoming a golf sensation.
Returning talent from the first film includes Julie Bowen, who played Sandlerās on-screen love interest, and Christopher McDonald as a jealous golf pro and the first filmās antagonist. So far, plot details for the sequel are being kept a secret.
Itās been nearly 30 years since the first film, and Adam Sandler seems eager to return to the āHappy Gilmoreā universe, taking to Instagram to tease an Easter egg, alongside the caption, āIt aināt over. The way I see itā¦ weāve only just begun.āAdam Sandler wrote the screenplay alongside Tim Herlihy, and both will produce with Jack Giarraputo and Robert Simonds. The director of the original āHappy Gilmoreā, Dennis Dugan, will executive produce the sequel with Judit Maull, Kevin Grady, David Bausch, and Barry Bernardi.
Bad Bunny has hinted at wanting to spend more time flexing his acting chops, telling Vanity Fair last year, āYou could say that I have been investing a little bit more of myself in acting.ā The star is represented by UTA and Rimas Entertainment.
The musician previously appeared opposite Brad Pitt in the Sony action comedy Bullet Train, and with Gael GarcĆa Bernal in the Amazon drama Cassandro. He will also have a role in another Sony Pictures film, Darren Aronofskyās crime thriller, Caught Stealing.
