Ariana Grande On Why Adam Sandler’s ‘The Waterboy’ Makes Her Cry: “I Love Bobby Boucher”

Armando Tinoco

3 January 2025 at 3:18 pm·1-min read

Ariana Grande is very in touch with her emotions and recently revealed there’s one Adam Sandler movie that makes her cry.

The Wicked star makes no excuses and says she cries at everything, but The Waterboy is a movie that gets her in her feelings.

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“The Waterboy, with Adam Sandler, makes me cry. When they’re mean to Bobby Boucher, I cry. I don’t like it,” Grande told W magazine. “I love Bobby Boucher. He says, ‘Would you please still be my friend?’ and I lose it. But I cry at everything.”

Grande referred to the 1998 sports comedy The Waterboy, a film directed by Fran Coraci and co-written by Tim Herlihy and Sandler. The film starred Sandler as Bobby Boucher, a 31-year-old man with autism who works as a waterboy and is recruited to play football. Sandler’s co-stars included Kathy Bates, Fairuza Balk, Jerry Reed, and Henry Winkler.

In the same interview, Grande shared that Love Is Blind is her favorite reality show, saying, “That series is just fantastic to me.”

The singer says she even follows up with the stars on social media to see if the couples have made it past the show, saying, “I check sometimes. I’ll go to Instagram and find these people and make sure they’re still together. I need to know what’s happening.”

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