Julie Bowen Just Dropped a Big Spoiler AboutHappy Gilmore 2: 'I Think I'm Allowed to Say That...'

Mar. 15, 2025

Julie Bowen on July 11, 2024.Photo:Jesse Grant/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty

Jesse Grant/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty

Julie Bowenis spilling aboutHappy Gilmore 2.

While onToday With Hoda & Jennaon Thursday, Sept. 12, theModern Familyalum, 54, talked about returning for the sequel nearly 30 years after the original 1996Adam Sandlercomedy.

Co-hostJenna Bush Hagerjoked, “You can probably tell us zero” about the new movie, currently filming in New Jersey, to which Bowen confirmed, “Absolutely zero.”

Bowen played Virginia Venit in the original, the love interest to Sandler’s titular hockey star-turned-golfer. “Are y’all [still] together?” Hager, 42, asked. Said Bowen, “Yes, we are very much together.” The co-host then joked, “Oh, you just told us a spoiler alert!”

“Is that bad? No. That… You can put that… I think I’m allowed to say that!” added Bowen.

Julie Bowen, Frances Bay and Adam Sandler in “Happy Gilmore” (1996).Universal/Everett

Universal/Everett

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Happy Gilmorewas “the first movie I ever did,” said Bowen, who recalled, “I really was uncomfortable with my hair in it. Really uncomfortable with it. I remember sort of crying in my trailer saying, ‘No one’s gonna see it, it’s okay.’ I’m like, no one’s going toseeit? It’s the only movie my dad has watched over and over again!”

Hager called the original film “iconic,” adding that “one of the reasons isbecause of the late Bob Barker. I know that was one of your favorite parts.”

In addition to Sandler, 58, and Bowen, also returning iscostar Christopher McDonald. The cast of the Netflix sequel also includes Benito Martínez Ocasio (a.k.a.Bad Bunny), and NFL starTravis Kelce is said to make an appearance.

On Sept. 9, Sandler teased that production on the comedy is underway, sharing aphoto on Instagramof the iconic hockey jersey. “It ain’t over. The way I see it… we’ve only just begun,” he wrote in the caption.

source: people.com