Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston opened up about their decades-long friendship and recent on-screen collaboration in interviews ahead of their new Netflix comedy Murder Mystery 2.
But while speaking to USA Today about the film, Sandler, 56, joked that the two are still awkward when it comes to filming kissing scenes with each other, which they did in all three of their films together. ‘
The former Saturday Night Live star joked that Jennifer, 54, was a little too enthusiastic when it came time to film her kissing scene in the Murder Mystery sequel.
‘For God’s sake shut up,’ he recalled saying to her. “It was so wide! Every time she came with a big wide mouth and I said, “Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho, whoa! What do we do?”
Sandler also revealed that filming scenes with Aniston resulted in him being injured.
Slow it down! Adam Sandler, 56, joked his Murder Mystery 2 co-star Jennier Aniston, 54, was too smitten with their kissing scenes in the new movie; seen at Tuesday’s premiere in LA
“For God’s sake shut up,” he jokingly recalled saying to her. “It was so wide! Every time she came with a big, wide mouth and I said, “Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho, whoa! What are we doing there?”; Still image from Murder Mystery 2
“Jennifer kicked me in the ribs on a take,” he shared, while saying that Mark Strong, who plays a member of the British Special Air Service (SAS), accidentally punched him in the face during a fight scene.
‘All accidents!’ interjected Jennifer.
Mark ‘didn’t mean it, but it happened,’ Sandler added. “He cracked me good.”
Things got comically awkward between the old pals when Sandler mentioned that he got his friends and co-stars Kevin James, Chris Rock and David Spade Maserati sports cars after they starred with him in the 2010 comedy Grown Ups.
‘You haven’t gotten the Maserati yet?’ Sandler asked Aniston as she let her mouth drop in mock shock. ‘When you come home tonight!’
“You bought your co-stars Maseratis?” she repeated.
Sandler saved face as Aniston pretended to walk out of the interview, joking that he had tried to give her similar gifts.
“You want to know the truth about Jennifer? I bought her three Ferraris,’ he said, opening the joke. “Every time I boot it up, a guy comes out and says, ‘Hey, get this out there,’ and I’m like, ‘No, no, this is a gift.’
“And the guy says, ‘Let’s go, keep moving. So I’m going down the hill as ghosts,’ he said as she stepped away from her chair.
Ouch! He also shared that “Jennifer kicked me in the ribs on a take.” Things got comically awkward when he mentioned giving his Grown Ups co-stars Maseratis
Exuberant: ‘You haven’t gotten the Maserati yet?’ Sandler asked Aniston as she let her mouth drop in mock shock. ‘When you come home tonight!’ She then pretended to leave the interview
Not again: in Murder Mystery 2 you play a married couple who have become private investigators just to solve the groom’s kidnapping at a destination wedding
After Jennifer returned, she added, “It’s alright, it’s alright. I don’t need fancy things.”
The two appeared to have an easy relationship, something they’ve developed over the decades, having first met in Los Angeles in their early 20s.
They first starred together in 2011’s Just Go With It and have since developed a strong on-screen partnership with their two Murder Mystery films.
In the new film, they play married couple Nick and Audrey Spitz, who have been private investigators since the events of the first film. The two are invited to the wedding of Maharaja Vikram Govindan (Adeel Akhtar), who is kidnapped before the ceremony, forcing them to switch to detective mode.