On July 28, Boyce’s mom, Libby, took to Instagram to personally thank Sandler for including her son in the movie. “Thank you (Adam Sandler) for honoring Cam’s legacy in Happy Gilmore 2,” she wrote in the caption alongside a photo of the scene.

Cameron Boyce’s unexpected death in 2019, due to a seizure at just 20 years old, shocked Hollywood to its core. In the wake of his passing, the Cameron Boyce Foundation was started to raise funds and help further progress in curing epilepsy.