Ben Stiller Says People 'Always' Mistake Him for Adam Sandler and Tell Him 'ClickChanged My Life'

Mar. 15, 2025

Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller at the 27th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards on Nov. 27, 2017.Photo:Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty

Ben StillerandAdam Sandlerhave a history of making fans laugh with their zany comedies — and sometimes those fans can’t even tell them apart.

Stiller revealed onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonthat he’s often mistaken for Sandler, and that fans seem to have a particular attachment to the latter star’s 2006 filmClick.

“We’ve been buddies for, I don’t know, 30 years or something now,” Stiller told Fallon on the Wednesday, Nov. 27 episode. “People always will yell out to me or to him, and he’ll text me and he’ll say, like, ‘I was in Italy and someone said, ‘Ben Stiller, I love you!’' Or someone will say, like, ‘Oh man,Clickchanged my life’ to me.”

He continued, “And then I’ll say, ‘No, I’m not Adam Sandler. I’m Ben Stiller.’ And then they say, ‘Who?’ ”

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Stiller and Sandler, both 58, have appeared onscreen together a handful of times. Both starred in the 2017 filmThe Meyerowitz Stories, where they played brothers, and Stiller had a memorable role in Sandler’s 1996 comedyHappy Gilmore. Stiller also appeared in cameos in Sandler’s 2020 comedyHubie Halloween, and the 2009 filmFunny People.

“Me and Ben, I just loved him,” Sandler toldGood Morning Americain 2017 of working with Stiller onMeyerowitz. “We loved seeing each other every day. I love seeing him. It was an amazing, brotherly feeling and our scenes together, I was so excited to do them.”

Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler at a screening of ‘The Meyerowitz Stories’ in May 2017.Toni Anne Barson/FilmMagic

Toni Anne Barson/FilmMagic

Netflix announced that the sequel was official in May, and the cast is also set to includeTravis KelceandBenny Safdie, who will have a “jucy part,” Sandler told IndieWire in August.

Both Stiller and Sandler werephotographed earlier this monthon the film’s set in Kearny, New Jersey.

source: people.com