Ben Stiller Says People 'Always' Mistake Him for Adam Sandler and Tell Him '"Click" Changed My Life'

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Longtime friends Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler will next share the screen in 'Happy Gilmore 2'

Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler have a history of making fans laugh with their zany comedies — and sometimes those fans can't even tell them apart.

Stiller revealed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that he's often mistaken for Sandler, and that fans seem to have a particular attachment to the latter star's 2006 film Click.

"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, Click changed 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 film The Meyerowitz Stories, where they played brothers, and Stiller had a memorable role in Sandler's 1996 comedy Happy Gilmore. Stiller also appeared in cameos in Sandler's 2020 comedy Hubie Halloween, and the 2009 film Funny People.

"Me and Ben, I just loved him," Sandler told Good Morning America in 2017 of working with Stiller on Meyerowitz. "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."

They'll next share the screen in Happy Gilmore 2, where Stiller is set to reprise his role as Hal L., the two-faced nursing home orderly who lied to Happy (played by Sandler) about how his grandmother was being treated at the retirement home.

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Netflix announced that the sequel was official in May, and the cast is also set to include Travis Kelce and Benny Safdie, who will have a "jucy part," Sandler told IndieWire in August.

The extent of Kelce's involvement, meanwhile, remains unclear. On The Tonight Show in August, Sandler said that "we have a nice something for Travis" and "he is going to come by."

Both Stiller and Sandler were photographed earlier this month on the film's set in Kearny, New Jersey.

Stiller, meanwhile, will appear in the new holiday film Nutcrackers, which is on Hulu Nov. 29. He also directs the hit Apple TV+ series Severance, which will return for a second season on Jan. 17.