Interview: Adam Sandler (Hustle)
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Fresh of some of the best reviews of his career in Uncut Gems, Sandler earned raves again in the energetic, heart-on-its-sleeve sports drama Hustle, which premiered on Netflix earlier this year. On this week’s podcast he gets candid about finding projects that scare him, getting back on the road to do standup, and what he likes in modern comedy even if he can’t figure out TikTok.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair. |
| 0:05.0 | It's such an honor to present this next award. |
| 0:08.0 | And here are the nominees. |
| 0:10.0 | And the Oscar goes to. |
| 0:12.0 | And the Oscar goes to. |
| 0:14.0 | And I can't deny the fact that you like me right now. |
| 0:18.0 | You like me. |
| 0:20.0 | On the King of the World! |
| 0:22.0 | There's a mistake. |
| 0:23.0 | Moonlight, you guys won Best Picture. |
| 0:30.0 | I am Katie Rich and I'm here to tell you all about the interview you're about to hear, |
| 0:41.0 | which I did with Adam Sandler. |
| 0:43.0 | You know who Adam Sandler is. |
| 0:45.0 | But on this occasion, we were talking about his movie Hustle, which came out on Netflix earlier this year. |
| 0:50.0 | I watched it as someone who doesn't know all that much about basketball. |
| 0:53.0 | Doesn't know that much about, you know, Adam Sandler movies, beyond that he's been very famous my whole life. |
| 0:58.0 | And I was just completely pulled over by it. |
| 1:00.0 | It is a sports movie really. |
| 1:02.0 | I've been recommending it as a movie for anyone who loves a training montage. |
| 1:05.0 | This has a really good one. |
| 1:07.0 | He's directed by Jeremiah Zegar, who had a movie called We The Animals a few years ago. |
| 1:11.0 | And it's this really heartfelt, funny kind of in some ways quintessentially Adam Sandler movie where he's playing the sky, |
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