AEW’s MJF Recalls Auditioning For Movie Role Alongside WWE Star

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AEW World Champion MJF has revealed how he landed a big movie role, revealing that he auditioned for a different character.

MJF was featured in the 2025 release Happy Gilmore 2, playing one of the titular character’s sons.

Speaking with Insight on Chris Van Vliet, MJF revealed that he originally auditioned to be one of the rival golfers who would’ve been featured alongside WWE star Becky Lynch’s character.

Revealing that Adam Sandler had pushed for MJF to be one of his character’s sons, MJF said:

“I actually auditioned to be the evil golfer that would have been beside Becky’s character. Becky rules, by the way, if you don’t like Becky Lynch, go f**k yourself.

“Anyway, so I auditioned for that role, and Sandler saw it. I didn’t find this out until later, and he was like, this kid is funny, and he kind of looks like me. Can we try him out to be one of the sons? So he specifically out of God knows how many people that auditioned were like him.

“Then when I got to work with him, it was so apparent to me, obviously you already know how talented he is, but how much of a good, down-to-earth human being he is.

“Whatever happens to my career now is because no different than Cody and Tony taking a chance on me is in my career in LA is because Adam Sandler took a chance on me, and that’s something I’m never gonna forget. When I make it big, which I will, it’s something I’m never gonna let him forget.”

Becky Lynch plays Flex in the movie, one of the golfers in a competition Gilmore competes in. She doesn’t have any major interactions with MJF’s character in the final movie.

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