Drew Barrymore And Adam Sandler Have A Deep Friendship

In a VH1 clip of Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler promoting “The Wedding Singer” back in the 1990s, they genuinely seem to be having a good time enjoying each other’s company, and at the end, they toasted their friendship. Decades later, Barrymore was stopped in her tracks and moved to tears as she watched their first movie together. Barrymore posted her reaction to Instagram, saying: “We made such a good movie. I love you so much.” Sandler commented, writing: “Love u always Drew. Happy New Year.” Too sweet!

In addition to starting a lifelong friendship, starring together in “The Wedding Singer” helped both of their careers in different ways. Barrymore has credited Sandler and “The Wedding Singer” with helping to revive her career — he’d just done movies like “Happy Gilmore” and “Billy Madison” while she was having more downs than ups during her transformation from child star to grown-up actor.

“The Wedding Singer” was Sandler’s first ever romantic comedy, and on “The Howard Stern Show” in 2015, Sandler revealed that, “Drew liking me made it seem like girls were allowed to like me in movies.” Sandler would go on to star as the romantic lead in more films, including “Punch Drunk Love,” where his love interest is Emily Watson, and “Murder Mystery,” where Sandler’s love interest is Jennifer Aniston, apparently all thanks to Barrymore.