Adam Sandler breaks ankle while playing basketball
Story by Jack Foley
HOLLYWOOD actor Adam Sandler has broken his ankle playing basketball, his publicist has confirmed.
The 41-year-old star, whose films include The Wedding Singer and I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry, suffered the injury at the weekend – but still won the game.
The injury is not expected to affect filming on his latest project, the Disney comedy Bedtime Stories, in which the fairytales he invents for his niece and nephew magically come true.
The film finds Sandler starring alongside Guy Pearce, Courteney Cox and Keri Russell and is directed by Adam Shankman, of Hairspray fame.
Prior to that, Sandler fans will be able to catch him in summer comedy You Don’t Mess with the Zohan for co-wrier and former room-mate Judd Apatow.
The film, directed by Dennis Dugan, finds Sandler playing an ex-Mossad agent who fakes his death so that he can re-emerge in New York City as a hair stylist. It co-stars Mariah Carey, Henry Wrinkler and Rob Schneider and is due for a UK release on August 1.
Apatow, speaking in a recent interview with IndieLondon to promote Knocked Up, said of the comedy: “I lived with Adam in the early ’90s. You know how you dream of being friends with someone like Bill Murray? Like: “Aah, he’d be the best guy to live with for a while!” Well, living with Adam really was exactly what you’d hope it would be. He wasn’t famous and he was incredibly charismatic and hilarious. We always talk on the phone now and go: “Wasn’t that the best two years of our lives? We had so much fun.”
“Now, we both have children but we’ve remained friends for a very long time. I’m so proud of him and what he’s accomplished in his life, and he’s been very supportive of me. But this is exciting because it’s the first movie that I wrote with him that’s being produced.”