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Adam Sandler reacts to Travis Kelce's honey-covered Happy Gilmore 2 cameo: 'He could be a superstar'

In it, a shirtless Kelce gets tied to a post, covered in honey by Bad Bunny's character, and then attacked by a bear. Adam Sandler reacts to Travis Kelce's hone

In it, a shirtless Kelce gets tied to a post, covered in honey by Bad Bunny's character, and then attacked by a bear.

Adam Sandler reacts to Travis Kelce's honey-covered Happy Gilmore 2 cameo: 'He could be a superstar'

In it, a shirtless Kelce gets tied to a post, covered in honey by Bad Bunny's character, and then attacked by a bear.

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**This article contains spoilers for *Happy Gilmore 2*.**

- Adam Sandler gushes about working with Travis Kelce in *Happy Gilmore 2*: "As an actor, swear to God, he could be a superstar."

- Kelce plays a waiter who, in a daydream, gets tied up to a post, shirtless, covered in honey, and attacked by a bear.

- Sandler reveals that the NFL tight end showed up to set the day after a Kansas City Chiefs game, with a "massive bruise on his back" that he had downplayed.

After his wild — literally — cameo in *Happy Gilmore 2*, Travis Kelce could be a major superstar, according to Adam Sandler.

The Sandman, who co-wrote and stars in the comedy sequel, gushed about working with the NFL star tight end, occasional actor and TV host, and boyfriend to Taylor Swift. "Travis is honestly, he came in, he hung out with us a couple days. He was just a great, great actor," Sandler tells **, while seated next to costars Julie Bowen and Christopher McDonald.

The film picks up 30 years after the 1996 original left off, with Sandler's Happy having to once again pull himself out of a rut and, this time, restore his reputation so he can save golf and pay for his daughter's prestigious ballet school. In the movie, Kelce plays a mean-spirited waiter who fires Oscar (played by Bad Bunny), a busboy. Later, Happy hires Oscar to be his caddie and helps him envision his "happy place" — an imaginary safe space Happy visits in the first film to calm himself down before putting. In Oscar's ensuing daydream, he imagines his former boss tied shirtless to a pole as he slathers him in honey before leaving him to be attacked by a hungry bear.

Bad Bunny and Travis Kelce in Happy Gilmore 2

Bad Bunny and Travis Kelce in 'Happy Gilmore 2'.

"He showed up literally the day after a game and he had to take his shirt off — I think it was the first day he was there — and he takes his shirt off and goes, 'Oh, I got a bruise from yesterday, I think,'" Sandler recalls of the NFL star, who he says had "a massive bruise on his back" but was "just a stud about it."

Sandler continues, "He's like, 'That was nothing, that happens.' But what a guy. He's funny, just great personality. Just somebody that you'd want to hang out with all day long, and that he feels like he's your buddy. He feels like he will protect you. He feels like he's going to be nice to your family. He's got everything. And as an actor, swear to God, he could be a superstar if he wanted to do that."

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McDonald, who reprises his role as Happy's rival Shooter McGavin, agrees. "Really good dude. And he's got a lot of talent as an actor, I think, a lot of charisma," he says, pausing to add, "And too damn handsome. Let's be honest. Isn't he too damn handsome?"

"He's a very handsome man," Sandler agrees.**

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The love fest was apparently mutual for Kelce, who similarly gushed about his experience making the sequel in a January appearance on *The Pat McAfee Show*. "That was a dream come true," Kelce said of *Happy Gilmore 2* at the time. "I thought *SNL* was going to be the peak of my acting and showman or entertainment career … working with Happy Gilmore himself, the Sandman and Happy Productions, it was off the chain."

Travis Kelce in Happy Gilmore 2

Travis Kelce in 'Happy Gilmore 2'.

He continued, "They're so professional and yet so fun to work with. I felt like I was working with like the Andy Reid of the acting world. [Sandler] is every bit as cool off the screen as he is on the screen. That was a dream come true. That was awesome."**

*Happy Gilmore 2* is now streaming on Netflix.

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