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Netflix’s Spaceman Put Adam Sandler Through Some Very Real Pain
By CHRIS EVANGELISTA
Adam Sandler stars in the Netflix drama "Spaceman," as a sad astronaut going through a breakup with his pregnant wife and getting advice from a spider.
Since Sandler's character, Jakub Procházka, spends most of the movie in space, the actor had to float around a lot to imply zero-gravity conditions.
Sandler was hooked up to wires to simulate floating, making the experience uncomfortable. He revealed his pain at a press conference at the Berlin Film Festival.
"The wires were tough because my body's not the most flexible body. The wires hurt me, they dug into me," Sandler explained.
"The stuntmen who would wire me up every day, I would say 'that hurts' and they didn't believe me," he said, "But we did it as a team." He then shared the director's advice.
"Johan [Renck] would say, 'You don't look like you're floating, what are you doing?' [...] And then they'd wire Johan up and he'd be like, 'More like this!'" Sandler added.