"Happy Gilmore 2" director Kyle Newacheck defended the decision to kill off Virginia, telling /Film: "There's always a concern when you're playing with that type of darkness. But I don't know, I was never really concerned because it is the driving force [of the film]. If you pull that out, then what do you have? You don't have anything real."

Bowen, 55, has looked back on her upbringing with a real estate developer father who taught her a "golden rule" about success.

J ulie Bowen my be reprising her role in Adam Sandler‘s new Happy Gilmore sequel, but she had already given up hope that she would get to return to the golf course after her son told her Sydney Sweeney had reportedly been cast. Bowen was visiting The View when she revealed her son had a hilarious way of breaking the news to her.