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Who opens the door but …John Amos!
That was the original written [cameo] in the script for many, many years.
We tried to think of the most wholesome person who was on television, and she was it.
Yeah, she didnt want to do the movie.
Al Goldstein was up there at one point, like, who would live next to him?
I was like, Very interesting, John.
Lets do it where this is your moment to be angry!
And then he got it, Josh said.
Johnny Aranbayev, who plays Sandlers son in the movie, says, What a dick!
And Howard goes, Hey!
Thats the beauty of Howard: He can get snubbed by somebody but also recognize them.
Per the brothers, Sandler and Amos were supposed to work together once before.
Sandler and [Tim] Herlihy wrote it for John Amos!, Benny said.
And then the studio is like, Love John Amos, but what about Carl Weathers?
The studio is like, Its gonna be Carl Weathers.
It was very brief in time, but they talked to Amos about it, Josh said.
He said, We were gonna work together a long time ago.
Whatever happened to that golf movie?
