Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler haven't graced the big screen together since 2014's Blended, but another collaboration may soon be headed our way. In conversation with ET during the Mark Twain Honors in Washington D.C. last night, Barrymore shared the two were looking for a new project to tackle together. While nothing is set in stone yet, Barrymore appeared confident that the two will know when the right project comes up:
"Maybe not be redundant of something we've done in the past, but not try to prove we're doing something different just to prove it. It's like an alchemy, you know? And it'll be a little of this, a little of that. I will say this: Adam and I seem to really know it when we know it. And we're like, 'This is it.'" She later adds: "We work really hard in the writing to balance it out for the male-female perspective. We always try to infuse something that we really think is meaningful, as far as storylines, or what we relate to or what we want to see in a story, 'cause we need that. We make it personal, even though it's not us up there."
The two, who share a friendship, have collaborated on Blended, 2004's 50 First Dates and 1998's The Wedding Singer. This isn't the first time one of the stars teases about a working together on a fourth film. During the 2020 MTV Movie & TV Awards: Greatest of All Time show, the two were presented with the Dynamic Duo award. At the presentation, Barrymore told Sandler it had been fun to make a movie with him "in every of the last three decades." This prompted Sandler to respond: "Yes, yes, and Drew - it's 2020, so, you know what that means..."
Adam Sandler Honored by Colleagues
Barrymore, along with fellow three-time Sandler collaborator Jennifer Aniston (Just Go With It, Murder Mystery, and Murder Mystery 2), were present to honor Sandler as he received the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday. Others celebrating the actor included Judd Apatow, Conan O'Brien, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Steve Buscemi, David Spade, and Luis Guzmán.
While talking to ET, Barrymore praised Sandler, saying that during his start in Hollywood, while on SNL, Sandler was the "coolest."
"Everybody wanted to be Adam Sandler-adjacent. And I'm just lucky that I broke through. Because I was like, 'I know we don't look like a match with my purple hair and leopard coat, and he's still wearing that same outfit he wore that day 25 years ago or whatever it was,' but I was like, 'But I know that we are.' There's something inside," she said.