Spoilers forward for Blissful Gilmore 2.
Adam Sandler has quite a few beloved films on his lengthy resume, together with Blissful Gilmore. The 1996 sports activities comedy (which is streaming with a Netflix subscription) is arguably one in all Sandler’s finest rom-coms, because of the title character’s love story with Julie Bowen’s Virginia Venit. She reprised that function for Blissful Gilmore 2, and just lately spoke to CinemaBlend about her response to the OG film’s lingerie scene… and the way it factored into the sequel.
What we knew about Blissful Gilmore 2 has been restricted forward its launch on Netflix, with Sandman and the gang attempting to protect the long-awaited sequel’s secrets and techniques. That features the way in which Virginia is used, an enormous twist comes her approach early on within the Adam Sandler film. As you’ll be able to see within the video above, I had the privilege of talking with the solid forward of the sequel’s launch, the place I requested Bowen about that iconic lingerie scene from the unique. She advised me:
Once I learn it within the first script it’s what made me love the primary script. You don’t understand how nice these performances are going to be. You don’t know they’re really gonna get Carl Weathers or something. You’re simply studying it going ‘I believe it’s humorous however I’m undecided.’ And I get to that scene and I laughed out loud 30 years in the past at two pitchers of beer. And I assumed ‘I would like this.’
She’s not incorrect. Virginia is a buttoned-up skilled for Blissful Gilmore, so seeing her in lingerie carrying two enormous pitchers of beer within the “Blissful Place” was a hilarious departure. And per our dialog, that was one of many large causes that the Trendy Household star wished to signal onto the 1996 authentic.
Blissful Gilmore 2 is chock-full of easter eggs and references to the unique film, with Sandler even utilizing the identical soundtrack. We additionally briefly see OG Virginia again within the lingerie, with current-day Bowen attending to share a scene along with her youthful self. In our similar interview, she spoke extra about that iconic scene, sharing:
I’ve at all times seen that as hilarious and humorous and a sendup of intercourse pinups. I by no means felt objectified by that in any respect. So when it’s coming again I used to be like ‘I don’t know if I can nonetheless put it on.’ That’s the one factor I used to be afraid of.
In fact, Bowen did not really need to swimsuit again up within the white lingerie. Or if she did, it ended up on the chopping room flooring. As a substitute we bought to see each model of Virginia share the display screen collectively. And it was yet one more approach that Blissful Gilmore 2 appears like a love letter to the unique.
Julie Bowen was solely featured briefly in Blissful Gilmore 2‘s trailer, and it turns into clear early onto the film. Nonetheless, it is thrilling that so many authentic actors are again for the sequel, together with Christopher McDonald, Kevin Nealon, Dan Patrick and Verne Lundquist. In our interview Julie Bowen additional shared her help of Virginia’s look within the “Blissful Place”, telling me:
I at all times felt fully revered and in charge of all of it.
Anticipation for the long-awaited comedy is excessive, and the unique Blissful Gilmore has been trending on Netflix forward of its launch. Julie Bowen returning as Virginia proved to followers that the spirit of the primary film would proceed, and I can let you know there are numerous references and easter eggs to the primary one.
Blissful Gilmore 2 will arrive on Netflix on July twenty fifth as a part of the 2025 film launch record. We’ll simply need to see if the film evokes Adam Sandler to supply extra sequels to his beloved ’90s hits like Billy Madison or The Waterboy.