Early on in Adam Sandler’s career, he tended to focus on creating content for older audiences. It wasn’t until he had two daughters of his own that he wanted to begin tackling much more family-friendly films. “When they were little, just like ‘Hotel Transylvania,’ I wanted to make movies they could watch and have a good time,” the actor told Seattle’s KING-TV.
Behind the scenes, he wanted Sadie and Sunny Sandler to have just as good a time. He cast them each as characters in the spooky animated film as well as its two sequels. In Sandler’s latest animated film “Leo,” he decided to do the same. “Always fun to be around them and tell them what to do,” he joked.
Jokes aside, the Sandler sisters have continued to inspire their father’s film content to this day. The message resonating from the lovable lizard in “Leo” is, after all, something that will be able to resonate with any parent watching. “The thing you learn from the movie is it’s just good to listen to your kids,” Sandler explained. “My wife has been telling me that for a long time. Sometimes I react quickly when the kids tell me something — I jump all over it, ‘Do this, do that.’ And then my wife’s like, ‘I don’t think you needed to say all that. I think they just wanted to be able to talk to you.'”
