The director of Happy Gilmore pays tribute to the late Carl Weathers after he passed away and shared some memories he has of Weathers with the time he worked with him on set.

Dennis Dugan started by saying, “[Carl Weathers] literally couldn’t be a nicer guy, and he was so Chubbs. Nobody else could have ever been Chubbs but him.”

He added, “He said, ‘I have another client, Carl Weathers, and he’d love to read for this.’ And I said, ‘Isn’t he a football player guy?’ He said, ‘Yeah, but he really wants to read for it.’ And I understood the subtext being, ‘Read Carl, and I can get you Chris McDonald.'”

He finished by saying, “Adam goes, ‘Oh, man, I don’t know. I didn’t picture that.’ He comes in—a charming, wonderful, sweet, nice guy—and — and killed it, and got the part right there.”