Cameron Boyce’s mother has opened up about Adam Sandler’s candy tribute to her late son in “Happy Gilmore 2.”
Taking to Instagram on Monday, Libby Boyce thanked Sandler for together with Cameron in a brief blink-and-you-miss-it scene towards the start of the brand new Netflix sequel.
Cameron died in July 2019 after struggling an epileptic seizure in his sleep. He was 20.
“Thank you [Adam Sandler] for honoring Cam’s legacy in Happy Gilmore 2,” she wrote alongside a golf emoji, an angel wing emoji and a purple coronary heart emoji.
She additionally included a screenshot of the scene in query, which comes when Sandler’s titular character approaches a check-in sales space earlier than beginning a spherical of golf.
Eagle-eyed viewers can see that the clerk is watching the Disney Channel present “Jessie” on a small TV on the desk. Cameron starred in “Jessie” from 2011 to 2015 because the character Luke Ross.
Libby beforehand shared an article in regards to the scene by way of Instagram on Sunday.
“Adam and Cameron talked quite a bit in the days leading up to his death,” Libby started. “Cameron was supposed to be in Hubie Halloween and they were strategizing.”
“They had a bond I think related to being authentic, funny and just keeping it real,” she added. “Adam always finds a way to keep Cams memory alive which warms our heart.”
Years earlier than his dying, Cameron and the “Billy Madison” comic first starred collectively as father-and-son duo Lenny and Keithie Feder in Sandler’s 2010 comedy “Grown Ups.” They later reunited for the film’s 2013 sequel.
Sandler was one of many first to pay tribute to Cameron after his dying.
“Too young. Too sweet. Too funny,” he wrote on social media on the time. “Just the nicest, most talented, and most decent kid around. Loved that kid. Cared so much about his family. Cared so much about the world.”
“Thank you, Cameron, for all you gave to us. So much more was on the way. All our hearts are broken,” Sandler continued on the time. “Thinking of your amazing family and sending our deepest condolences.”
The “Big Daddy” star additionally paid tribute to Cameron throughout the credit of his 2020 Netflix film, “Hubie Halloween.”
“In loving memory of Cameron Boyce,” the display screen reads. “Gone way too soon and one of the kindest, coolest, funniest, and most talented kids we knew. You live on forever in our hearts and are truly missed every day.”
Cameron made a reputation for himself in Disney’s standard “Descendants” franchise.
Taking part in Carlos, the son of Cruella de Vil, Cameron appeared in “Descendants” (2015), “Descendants 2” (2017) and “Descendants 3” (2019).
The third movie within the hit franchise was launched lower than one month after Cameron’s dying. It was devoted to his reminiscence.
In Might, lots of Cameron’s different former co-stars took to social media to recollect the late actor on what would have been his twenty sixth birthday. Earlier this month additionally marked the sixth anniversary of his dying.
“I still feel you all the time. Catch you in the next life,” Dove Cameron, who starred in “Descendants” with Cameron, wrote by way of Instagram on Might 28. “Happy birthday. I love you.”
“Our Angel,” actress Sofia Carson wrote on July 6. “Forever.”
