Julie Bowen’s career hasn’t slowed since she made her debut as Claire Dunphy in Modern Family in 2009. And the star is ecstatic that actresses are continuing to find amazing roles well into their careers.
“Jodie Foster crossed over. She’s my freaking hero,” Julie, 54, told People in an interview published on Friday, November 8. “And Annette Bening. But a lot of my peers still look 30!”
“I remember I lost a role to one of those very worked-over people once, and they said, ‘We want someone older than you,’ and I was like, ‘But she looks like she’s 22!’” she added.
The comments came after Julie revealed that she will be de-aged in Happy Gilmore 2, in which she will reprise her role of Virginia Venit.
“We do a 25-year span,” the Hollywood star told Entertainment Tonight at the Power of Women event in Los Angeles on October 25. “I get de-aged, which I’m very excited about.”
“I’ve never been de-aged,” she added, before explaining that she had to remain mum and not reveal too much about the upcoming sequel.
“The cast list is coded,” the Emmy winner said. “It’ll say ‘busboy,’ and then you get there and you go, ‘You’re not a busboy, you’re like a giant huge star’ — that I can’t say.”
“It’s like that every single day,” she explained.
Adam Sandler will be returning to reprise the titular role in the sequel to the 1996 film.
“He’s still funny as hell,” Julie said of her costar. “He finally grew into those big shorts. They suit him now. He’s like a dad in his big ol’ dad shorts. I love it.”
Still, Julie has already dropped some big spoilers about the film though it seems like she didn’t mean to. During an appearance on Today in September, she was asked if her character and Adam’s character were still together in the sequel. “Yes, we are very much together,” she replied, before getting called out by Jenna Bush Hager for sharing a”spoiler alert.”
“Is that bad? No. That… You can put that… I think I’m allowed to say that!” Julie responded.
She said that Happy Gilmore was the first movie she ever did but admitted there was one thing she was unhappy with while filming.
“I really was uncomfortable with my hair in it,” she explained. “Really uncomfortable with it. I remember sort of crying in my trailer saying, ‘No one’s gonna see it, it’s OK.’ I’m like, no one’s going to see it? It’s the only movie my dad has watched over and over again!”
She also shared a memory of working with late Bob Barker on his iconic scene in the original film.
“It was one of my favorites. In this scene, he has to say, ‘The price is wrong, [bitch]’ and he said he didn’t want to say that because he’s such a gentleman,” the mom of three explained. “But they shot this for hours and hours and hours on this beautiful golf course in Vancouver. And by the end of the day, he’s so into it. He’s like, ‘The price is wrong, [bitch]!’ It was great.”
