Adam Sandler Reveals Why He Never Reads Reviews of His Movies

Adam Sandler hasn’t read a review for one of his movies for a very long time, and he has a good reason behind it.

During a screening and conversation for his Netflix film, Hustle, the 56-year-old actor got into his explanation that his resistance in reading the reviews come from the ones he actually did read when Billy Madison came out.

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Adam recalls that when Billy Madison came out in 1995, it was ripped by critics as garbage.

“When I was 17 and I got into this, I didn’t think about critics…I didn’t even realize that stuff was coming,” he shared. “I just thought you made movies, people go see it. When Billy Madison came out, me and my friend who wrote it, we were just like, ‘Oh yeah, they’re going to write about this in New York!’ We grew up reading the papers, we were going to NYU. And then we read the first one and we were like, ‘Oh my god, what happened? They hate us.’ And then we were like, ‘It must have been this paper,’ but then 90% of the papers are going, ‘This is garbage.’”

Adam adds that those reviews stung him and threw him for a loop.

That’s when he and his pal decided “we shouldn’t read this stuff because it’s so harsh.”

“I say the first two or three, Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer, we would still kinda hear about it,” Adam says about negative reviews. “People would call us up, “Can you believe they said this about you?’ I’d be like, ‘I didn’t read it, man…’ But everything has turned out excellent. And it’s OK, I get it. Critics aren’t going to connect with certain stuff and what they want to see. I understand that it’s not clicking with them.”

Adam seems to be past the negative reviews though, as Hustle is earning a lot of praise.

“I’m glad I’m getting praise, I’ll take it, but everybody worked hard on the movie,” he said. “I had a great part and I did the best I could with it.”

If you missed it, Adam had to read a funny speech at the Gotham Awards this week, which was written by his daughters.