The shock star of ‘Completely satisfied Gilmore 2’

Evaluations of “Completely satisfied Gilmore 2” are flooding in, and whereas some have been extra complementary than others, it’s exhausting to argue with the general splash the sequel to the cult traditional made because it dropped lower than every week in the past.

On Tuesday, Netflix introduced that “Completely satisfied Gilmore 2” was streamed 46.7 million occasions within the first three days of its launch — probably the most profitable U.S. opening weekend in Netflix historical past.

One other factor that’s exhausting to dispute? The shock star who stole the present. That’s proper, Scottie Scheffler.

You in all probability know Scheffler from his main dominance on the golf course, the man who lately received the Open Championship and who made about as many headlines for his feedback about what actually fulfills his life. He’s the World No. 1 and has upped his major-title tally to 4, however apparently he’s bought some appearing chops, too. And if you happen to watched “Completely satisfied Gilmore 2,” you might need seen as nicely. He appeared snug, and his dry humor, capability to make enjoyable of himself and supply was a spotlight of the film. A fast scan of the web and social media would inform you a similar.

However don’t take our phrase for it. Ask somebody who was there filming on-site.

“Scheffler was nice,” mentioned Hunter Mahan, who was Adam Sandler’s golf-swing double and who appeared on this week’s episode of GOLF’s Subpar podcast to debate what it was like making the film. “Individuals by no means see that aspect of Scottie. He’s simply head down, grind, talks about his religion and his household. However then you definately see that film and you’re like, dude’s bought quite a lot of persona. He’s humorous. He’s only a dude on the finish of the day.”

Scheffler had a handful of memorable moments, largely centered on the movie poking enjoyable of his weird arrest on the 2024 PGA Championship.

He quipped, “Oh no, not once more,” after he bought arrested for punching one other participant. And on the finish of the film, nonetheless in a jail cell, he was approached by a guard.

“Hey Scheffler, it’s been three days, you certain you don’t need to make that decision?”

“Relies upon,” Scheffler mentioned. “What’s for dinner?”

“Hen fingers.”

[Pauses]

“I’ll stick round one other evening.”

“He simply killed it,” Mahan mentioned. “They usually actually leaned on him. And fortunately he was not shying away from, you realize, getting arrested and all that stuff. That’s an enormous ask. Loads of guys would say no to that, and be like, no, I don’t need to convey that up once more. He may have had some company say no, I’d reasonably not try this. Completely leaned into it and completely killed it, and I feel that actually made Adam and everybody comfortable as a result of that was one thing that not everybody would have leaned into and I’m so comfortable he did as a result of it simply made the film so significantly better.”