Arts & Entertainment
Swampscott Extras Filming Grown Ups 2 Party Scene
A few hundred extras, doubles and others have joined the many movie stars filming a wild party scene in Grown Ups 2 at Phillips Park.
Maybe in your travels over Humphrey Street you have seen the parade of colorfully dressed men and women walking Bondelevitch Way to the next shoot in the Adam Sandler movie .
They are extras and doubles and other characters dressed in 80s era attire walking from the catering tent on the tennis courts to the big-top sound stage on the practice football field.
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Among the 200 or more people recruited for the movie's wild party scene are Swampscott's Todd and Kristyn Flannery, Rebecca Grillo. Dyan Reichert and Jen Burke.
They have been on the set for three days and will be shooting 10 more, he said.
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The wild party includes fighting between townspeople and .
All the stars in the movie are in the scene.
Todd said his favorite cast members are and Kevin James.
The group spends many hours on the set each day — a recent day was 15 hours — and Adam Sandler keeps people laughing, he said.
The long hours get boring but, overall, it is a cool experience, said Todd, owner of .
"Adam is who is on TV, exactly. One hundred percent a regular guy."
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