Timothée ChalametandAdam Sandlerare staying active together.
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Their friendship dates back to the early 2000s, after sharing the screen in the filmMen, Women, & Children. TheJason Reitman-directed moviecentered around the storyof a group of high school teenagers and their parents attempting to navigate the effect of the internet on their personal lives.
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Years later, he publicly praised his former costar’s performance in the Josh and Benny Safdie-directed filmUncut Gems. The 2020 film saw Sandlerplay a jewelry store ownerdeep in gambling debt who places all he has left on the sale of a rare gem.
In a 2019essay about the Safdie brothersforVariety, Chalamet wrote about his performance in the film, expressing, “Adam Sandler delivers a truly spectacular performance on the complete opposite end of the passive intropath he played in Paul Thomas Anderson’sPunch Drunk Love.”
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The speech read in part, “We also wish we could be at tonight’s award show with all of you sophisticated people, but Daddy said, and we quote, ‘I don’t want to spend a whole night that’s supposed to be about me and my greatness listening to you two newly pubetized buffoons screaming, ‘Where is Timothée Chalamet and how can we legally squeeze that fine little Jewish ass of his?’ "
source: people.com
