You’ll believe an Adam Sandler can fly in this behind-the-scenes look at Spaceman

The psychological space drama tested the actor more than Rob Schneider ever could Netflix’s new Adam Sandler movie is unique in the Sandman canon: Despite sending the comedic actor to space for an encounter with an oversized alien spider, most of the potentially corny laughs are swapped for melancholic tears.

Like Solaris, The Fountain, and Ad Astra before it, director Johan Renck’s Spaceman is a meditative intragalactic drama orbiting around a heartfelt performance from Sandler.

I mean, one time at the Jewish Community Center when we lost the match. But that’s when I was 7.