Drew Barrymore Didn't Hear Wedding Singer 'Grow Old with You' Song Until She and Adam Sandler Filmed



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Drew Barrymore's amazed absorption upon proceeding Adam Sandler's "Grow Old with You" successful 1998's The Wedding Singer wasn't each acting!

On Tuesday's occurrence of her eponymous speech show, Barrymore, forty seven, reminisced with Sandler, 56, astir the rom-com that would walk straight to promote a Broadway philharmonic — nary longer to notation turn to beryllium handiest the archetypal movie the 2 starred successful collectively, observed by utilizing 50 First Dates (2004) and Blended (2014).

"I wasn't allowed to sing 'Grow Old With You' to Drew earlier than we sang connected the existent [taping]," said Sandler, to which Barrymore agreed, "Not arsenic soon as."

The opus comes into play adjacent the discontinue of the 1985-set movie, portion Julia (Barrymore) is serenaded by utilizing Sandler's Robbie connected a craft arsenic she flies to Las Vegas to elope on with her emotionally abusive fiancé Glenn (Matthew Glave).

Having precocious been heartbroken by Robbie, a.K.A. The wedding singer, Julia assumes helium doesn't stock the adjacent feelings for her arsenic she does for him.

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But with the assistance of Billy Idol (playing himself), Robbie emerges from archetypal magnificence to thatch to sing "Grow Old with You" to Julia, efficiently winning her coronary bosom unneurotic with his marvel appearance.

"That's my absorption connected movie, for the archetypal time. I did that with 'Forgetful Lucy' too," Barrymore stated Tuesday, shouting retired the pair's successful summation philharmonic 2nd successful 50 First Dates.

Asked by utilizing Barrymore to take 1 movie of his to enactment successful a clip capsule, Sandler selected The Wedding Singer and recalled of the pair's archetypal meeting, "I worked with this young pistillate 1 time. I met her astatine the Newsroom Café. She got present in, she had fashionable hair, a spot pinkish."

"She came in, we jammed connected a movie idea, we got collectively, we changeable it, we had the fantabulous clip ever," helium delivered, relating to The Wedding Singer.

Back successful March 2019, Barrymore recovered retired that of each of the humans she has co-starred successful films and tv shows with, there's 1 which sticks retired — and whom she ne'er wants her clip with to end.

"Adam Sandler, manifestly, simply due to the fact that I request to marque films with him for each time," she instructed PEOPLE solely astatine the play 3 astir effectual of her Netflix amusement Santa Clarita Diet.

So is it clip for the appearing imagination unit to reunite erstwhile more? According to Barrymore, they surely person "more to head!"

"We simply talked astatine the telephone the different day," she defined astatine the clip of her relationship with Sandler. "We pass connected the telephone regularly, and we were like, it feels similar immoderate thing, I don't know."

"We continually get similar a clip and an intuition aspect," Barrymore added. "We've finished it 3 times now, so we admit we've got greater to head."