We’ll miss you, Chubbs.
Carl Weathers was set to reprise his function as Derick “Chubbs” Peterson within the upcoming sequel to “Happy Gilmore” earlier than he died at age 76.
“We had a painful change. Carl Weathers had a massive part,” Adam Sandler, 58, revealed in a brand new interview with Collider. “I would talk to Carl, and we were excited, and then Carl passed away.”
“We had to rewrite a lot of the stuff, and even what the story was,” the comedy actor continued. “We made a lot of nice references to how great Chubbs was in the movie. That was the biggest change.”
In 1996’s “Happy Gilmore,” Weathers performed the golf mentor to Sandler’s Pleased Gilmore.
Sandler instructed Collider that Chubbs had an even bigger half within the sequel once they had been drafting the preliminary scripts.
“In the first version that we came up with, he had a son,” Sandler revealed of Weathers’ character. “He was coming back to me a lot in my dreams, and he had a son who was mad at Happy for causing the death of daddy.”
Weathers died of atherosclerotic heart problems in Feb. 2024, seven months earlier than the sequel began capturing.
“A true great man. Great dad. Great actor. Great athlete,” Sandler wrote on Instagram in his tribute to Weathers on the time.
“So much fun to be around always. Smart as hell. Loyal as hell. Funny as hell,” Sandler continued. “Loved his sons more than anything. What a guy!! Everyone loved him. My wife and I had the best times with him every time we saw him. Love to his entire family and Carl will always be known as a true legend.”
Earlier this 12 months, “Happy Gilmore 2” director Kyle Newacheck acknowledged the sequel wouldn’t be the identical with out Weathers.
“You can’t make Happy Gilmore without Chubbs Peterson, it doesn’t exist,” Newacheck, 41, instructed Collider. “You can be assured his spirit is throughout the film. He may not be by Happy’s side anymore, but he’s on his shoulder.”
Whereas filming “Happy Gilmore,” Weathers suffered a critical harm that prompted him again pains for the remainder of his life.
“I didn’t tell anyone because, you know, I’m tough, man,” he recalled to GQ in 2020. “Yeah I hurt my back and actually, to this day, it still really bothers me, because it was right on the spine.”
The “Rocky” star defined that he obtained damage throughout a “blind fall” stunt and his physique “got trapped” by two stunt baggage that crushed on his backbone.
“I felt the pain and the burning sensation immediately,” he mentioned. “But again, I’m an athlete, I’m tough, I’m an actor, let’s keep going.”
Netflix’s “Happy Gilmore 2,” additionally starring Julie Bowen, Christopher McDonald, Ben Stiller, Dangerous Bunny and Benny Safdie, debuts Friday.
