In 1996’s “Happy Gilmore,” Weathers played the golf mentor to Sandler’s Happy Gilmore. Sandler told Collider that Chubbs had a bigger part in the sequel when they were drafting the initial scripts.

Adam Sandler disclosed in an interview how his upcoming Netflix feature, Happy Gilmore 2, underwent “painful” changes after Carl Weathers’ passing. Weathers played Derick “Chubbs” Peterson in the 1996 original feature.

Chubbs Peterson isn’t exactly being replaced in Happy Gilmore 2, as his son will appear in his place. Lavell Crawford of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul is portraying the character, who also has a prosthetic wooden hand like his father.