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It’s been 21 years since the premiere of 50 First Dates, and Drew Barrymore is gifting fans a bit of nostalgia from the beloved rom-com.
On Thursday (Feb. 13), The Drew Barrymore Show host shared a picture of her and her co-star Adam Sandler on the set of the 2004 film on Instagram, per Entertainment Weekly.
“Throwing it back,” she captioned the post, which shows herself and Sandler sitting side-by-side, with her clutching a mug and him holding an instrument. The post arrived exactly 21 years to the day after the film’s theatrical release.
50 First Dates follows Henry (Sandler), who is pining after Lucy (Barrymore), a woman with short-term memory loss. In order to make her fall in love with him, he must charm her every day, as she can’t remember what happened the day before.
Barrymore recently named Sandler as the co-star she shared her best onscreen kiss with, telling Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen last Wednesday (Feb. 5) that she loves how they are “so platonic.”
“We never dated, his wife Jackie is my dear friend,” she shared. “But I love being in films with him because I think we’re representing something bigger than, like, hot sexual chemistry. We’re representing true admiration of another person.”
Barrymore had also revealed on The Drew Barrymore Show in November that she found her daughter and Sandler’s daughter watching 50 First Dates together recently. Although this had initially surprised her, she ultimately found the moment to be “so sweet and wonderful.”
Sandler, whom Barrymore also collaborated with on The Wedding Singer (1998) and Blended (2014), has been a faithful supporter of her talk show, as Barrymore said in 2022 that he “watches it all the time.”
She highlighted the same sentiment during a September 2024 panel at The Paley Center for Media, where she revealed that Sandler would text her pictures of him watching The Drew Barrymore Show.
“The frame was always the TV here and his feet here,” she added.
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