Adam Sandler and Kate Beckinsale Just "Click"

He started cracking us up on "Saturday Night Live" as "Operaman" and we loved his silly songs. Then Adam Sandler made the leap to the big screen where we've enjoyed him in both wacky comedies and as a romantic lead in The Wedding Singer,50 First Dates, Punch Drunk Love and Spanglish. Gorgeous English rose Kate Beckinsale, hit the big screen first in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and clicked with John Cusack in Serendipity, Ben Affleck in Pearl Harbor and then with Leo DiCaprio when she played classic film hottie Ava Gardner in The Aviator. Of course, don't mess with Kate or her hot Underworld vampire chick will put out your lights!

Adam and Kate are a married couple with problems that are complicated when he finds the ultimate magical universal remote control device in Click. It was a mutual admiration society when we cornered the duo recently in Beverly Hills. Adam was casual in blue stripe polo shirt and Kate glam in black pants, black sleeveless chiffon tank with a long gold necklace and a big gold cuff bracelet. In her soft British upper-crusty accent, she told us how refreshing it was for her to do comedy after her action babe roles and drama turns and how she felt being "gracefully aged" to look like her own mom for far future scenes in Click. Adam is a proud new dad and happy to chat about the joys of dadhood and his decision to mix some serious, meaningful drama with his comedy.

TeenHollywood: Adam, the message of this film is that a lot of us are fast-forwarding through life to the detriment of ourselves and our families. Can you relate?

Adam: Sure. When you're shooting a movie you are away from home most of the time; away from the family more than you'd like to be and time keeps passing. And I go movie to movie a lot. Looking back on the past ten years of my life, I've been at work more than I've been at home. So I connected with this movie. When I watched the playback the other day, I was excited to get home and do the right thing; be with the family. And I've heard a few people comment on that.

TeenHollywood: Is Click a date movie and will it appeal to girls?

Adam: I don't know. If a woman wants to come to the movie, I think she's going to have a good time. This movie in particular, it's romantic, it's sweet, it's a love affair. It's about a good marriage that goes bad and luckily there's another chance to make it work.

TeenHollywood: Kate, earlier in your career you did a lot of comedy like Cold Comfort Farm and Much Ado About Nothing. Was it nice to return to your comedic roots?

Kate: It really was. It was a big coming home for me. It was kind of a personal thing because my father in England had been a very well known comedy actor, and I think I was very attracted to that because I had grown up on it, but I think I also slightly tried to steer clear of it. I didn't want to tread on anyone else's patch, I kind of wanted to be on my own patch. And then on this movie, I actually turned a year older than my father ever got to, and it was a very liberating moment finding myself. I'm in a comedy and everyone's being really nice, and I wasn't away from the family because we shot in L.A. and my daughter was around. And it was just like a blissful and lovely sort of blossoming moment for me, you know.

TeenHollywood: Kate, you get to be gracefully aged in this film. Was that weird?

Kate: The gracefully aged thing is a big shocker. I thought I was going to handle it better than I actually did.

Adam: I thought you looked great every step of the way.

Kate: That's very nice. He looked like a mixture of Humphrey Bogart and George Bush [Adam laughs].

TeenHollywood: Isn't seeing yourself much older just sooo creepy?

Kate: They modeled my hairstyle on the hairstyle my mother wore at my wedding so the whole thing was just kind of spooky. And it gives you a moment of totally existential panic. Because you sit there for six whole hours and it's kind of boring and goes on and on and on, and then at the end of it you look so much worse and more creepy than you did than when you went in.

TeenHollywood: How was it being married to Adam in the film?

Kate: I thoroughly enjoyed it. I didn't have to take him home, I didn't have to yell at him about going and playing golf or all of that stuff that would probably really bug me in real life if I was married to him. It was a blissful marriage and I was really kind of sad when it was over. Adam just comes in and makes [the kids] so comfortable and is so brilliant with them. My daughter has decided that he's a relative. He's just generous and brilliant to work with.

TeenHollywood: Okay, you have a magic remote that helps you control your life. Which feature would be most important to you?

Kate: I've been a parent for seven years. I would press pause and I would take a big old nap, and that's what I'd do.

Adam: That's good. I like that one.

TeenHollywood: Was part of the challenge of doing this film going to the dark territory which Sandler fans may not necessarily be used to seeing from you?

Adam: You know I felt like, with the remote control, we had a lot of jokes and a lot of humor in the movie. The thing that was attractive to all of us was that second half of the movie. We give enough jokes to relax you but it gets heavier than we've ever had before in one of our movies. As an actor doing some of those scenes where it was heavy, you know the stuff about my father, I lost my [own] father a couple of years ago so it was very fresh. I had a different relationship with my real father than I did in the movie.

TeenHollywood: So you two were closer?

Adam: My father in real life, I wanted him to be at my house all the time. When he would go away I would be like, oh, godammit, I want to hang out with my father today. I never thought my dad was a pain in the ass like my character does.

TeenHollywood: Is it tough doing the really dramatic scenes?

Adam: I'm much more comfortable showing up the day we've got a funny scene coming. The day where I had to be upset over my father in the movie I was...I don't like sitting in my trailer being depressed all day and looking at pictures. I do it. I'm glad when it's over. It feels like a relief, and if I think I did the best I could, I feel a huge sense of accomplishment.

TeenHollywood: The remote also lets you "rewind" your life. Which memory would you go back to first and why?

Adam: I liked Little League a lot. Cracking a base hit always felt good. I'd like to get back to that day. You know that aluminum bat smacking a ball? That sounded good; felt good in my hands. Running to first base, seeing my father actually think I'm a stud for a second. I would go back to that.

Kate: I probably would go back to when my daughter was really a small baby but I'd know in advance that I wasn't going to accidentally sit on her and bust her. It would be nice to go back through that in a relaxed frame of mind because she was a great baby.

TeenHollywood: Speaking of babies. Adam, how is being a new daddy?

Adam: The baby situation is fine, it's great. I love that kid. Every day I get more and more excited and I feel comfortable with her. I just want her to feel comfortable with me. I'm a little bit klutzy. My arms aren't perfect for the kid's head when I hold her like this. [demonstrates cradling a baby in his arms].

Kate: You need boobs.

Adam: Hey, I got a [wife] with boobs!

TeenHollywood: Are you changing diapers?

Adam: Uh, I see that go on. I cheer on my wife. I say 'good feeding' a lot, 'way to go!' [we all laugh]

TeenHollywood: What's been the most surprising part of fatherhood so far, and how did you decide on the baby's name?

Adam: The baby is named after my father and my wife's grandpa. So the kid's name is Sadie Madison. Yeah, my wife wanted Madison for her grandfather and to have some New York in the kid...Madison Ave. And, nothing really surprising. I knew I would be excited. I was dying to do it and it's a lot of fun. You know what is surprising? That the kid looks through me. There is no focus. Every time I think the kid likes me I'm like, 'oh, she's staring at my forehead right now'. There really hasn't been much eye contact yet.

TeenHollywood: As a father of a daughter, what will you do the first time she goes out on a date?

Adam: Oh, that's going to be ugly!

TeenHollywood: Do you see this film as your version of It's a Wonderful Life?

Adam: I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that. They have similarities, no doubt about it.

TeenHollywood: Do you appreciate your great life all the time?

Adam: No. No. I need a kick in the ass a lot. I always tend to forget. I have days where I'm feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I'm the angriest man alive. You don't see the ups and down of Sandler? The wife sees it.

TeenHollywood: The kids playing your children in the film seemed sweet. Were they?

Adam: Both of them were the sweetest kids, they would hug us every morning and say 'I love you' at the end of the day. It felt great! And little Tatum. I knew I was having a daughter, so I kept going, 'Oh man, I hope my daughter's as nice as this kid and doesn't end up like me.'

TeenHollywood: David Hasselhoff plays your boss in the film. Who is hotter; "Baywatch" Hasselhoff or "Knight Rider" Hasselhoff?

Adam: I like 'em both. I loved "Knight Rider" growing up. "Baywatch" I enjoyed many nights. "Baywatch" is good to have a pause button on. Hasselhoff, on "Saturday Night Live," that's where I got to know the man. That's where I thought he was a fun man to hang out with and a nice guy and I knew he would be funny as hell in this part.

TeenHollywood: You have a very serious movie coming up. It's about 9/11?

Adam: I don't know how to describe the movie but it's just about a man who's been through a terrible thing, he lost his family in 9/11, and he has a hard time just living life and just being in the moment. He tries to pretend he never had a family. He can only deal with life by thinking about stuff from his past. Don Cheadle plays [a guy he went to] dental school with. My character hasn't spoken to anybody in five years and Cheadle makes him feel comfortable. So it's about friendship, I guess. It's a heavy-duty movie.

TeenHollywood: Last time we spoke to you, Kate, you were going to get your drivers' license in LA?

Kate: I mastered a golf cart on the Sony lot which is about as far as I got.

Adam: I thought Sean Astin taught you.

Kate: He taught me for a second, for a night but I don't want to unleash myself on Los Angeles after one night lesson. I don't think that would be wise for anybody.

TeenHollywood: Kate are you going to make Underworld 3?

Kate: I don't think I'm invited to that one. I think it was always planned as a prequel so I wasn't a vampire yet.

TeenHollywood: Adam, don't you also have a comedy coming up, a movie with Kevin James?

Adam: Yeah. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. We're just getting ready. I'm just taking the summer off to hang out with family and then we're going to get rockin' on that.

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Lynn Barker is a Hollywood-based entertainment journalist and produced screenwriter.