Bobby Lee had a single line in The Fallacious Missy — and it was one of many hardest performances of his profession.

The comic and actor recalled enjoying a check-in desk worker within the 2020 Netflix comedy throughout a latest dialog with David Spade (who starred within the movie alongside Lauren Lapkus) and Dana Carvey on their podcast Fly on the Wall.

Lee’s line of dialogue within the film is simply 5 phrases: “Welcome, Mr. and Mrs. Morris.” However delivering these 5 phrases from a desk in a Hawaiian resort proved unexpectedly difficult because of an ungainly battle with one of many movie’s producers, Adam Sandler. 

“I am on set, feeling good. It is exterior. Hawaii!” Lee recalled. “Everybody on that set is a buddy of mine. ‘Motion.’”

The Mad TV alum then heard somebody yell, “Cease!” from video village. “It is Sandler. Who by no means comes [to set],” he mentioned. “He comes down and he goes, ‘Hey — what are you doing?’ And I’m going, ‘Oh hey, Adam!’ He goes, ‘What are you doing?’”

Lee mentioned Sandler did not suppose his efficiency felt natural sufficient. “He goes, ‘It is extra pure. Do it extra pure,’” he remembered. “So I’m going, ‘Okay.’ ‘Motion’ once more. I do it once more. ‘Cease!’ He comes again.”

Spade recalled chuckling via the discomfort with Lapkus. “Me and Lauren begin laughing, as a result of it is so tense and bizarre,” the Tommy Boy actor mentioned. “Adam wasn’t being imply, [but] it obtained tense as a result of Bobby saved nervously lacking it by a hair, after which they go, ‘Cease.’ They cease once more, they go, ‘Okay, on this one: simply regular.’ You hear them yelling it, and all of us begin going, ‘Oh my God,’ as a result of everybody’s so drained.”

Spade additionally famous that Sandler’s daughters, Sadie and Sunny, have been current within the scene. “Each time you mentioned it, I am like, ‘Is that the one?’” he recalled. “And it was like, ‘Nope!’ As a result of then [Sandler] comes out and is like, ‘Hey — what are you doing?’”

Lee mentioned his minuscule quantity of dialogue put extra strain on every phrase: “What occurs when you’re doing one line is, the entire time when you’re watching the scene, all you’re doing is considering that one line, and you’re operating it via your thoughts 10,000 occasions.”

Nevertheless, Lee’s story ended on a excessive observe, as a result of after ending the scene, he drowned his sorrows by consuming wontons at a resort bar — the place he met Magnum PI showrunner Gene Hong.

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“Over the subsequent three or 4 years, I did 15 episodes of that factor,” Lee defined. “He wrote me — I used to be number-one on the decision sheet. [I had my own] storylines. He is my greatest buddy now, Gene.”

Lee continued, “I’d’ve by no means met him if I hadn’t completed The Fallacious Missy with that nightmare that you put me via.”

Watch the complete dialog between Lee, Spade, and Carvey above.