Julie Bowen is happy she hasn't been replaced.

While the Modern Family star is among the OG Happy Gilmore cast members joining Adam Sandler in the upcoming sequel, she initially thought her character would be overlooked in favor of a younger woman.

"I heard that it was happening and I thought, 'Well I won't be in it,'" Julie told The Hollywood Reporter on the carpet for Netflix's Tudum event on May 31. "And that was okay, I was like, Virginia Venit, it's been 30 years."

As for who she expected she'd be replaced with, she imagined that the golf star "would have a hottie," she explained, "like a cart girl."

Julie—mom to Oliver, 18, and twins John and Gustav, 16—even quipped that when her eldest heard musings of a sequel, he had heard Sydney Sweeney would be taking Julie's place as Happy's girlfriend.

"I went, 'I'm hurt, and I so respect that move,'" she explained of her reaction to her son's rumor. "Of course, why wouldn't you?"

However, Julie's character did in fact make it into the sequel—which will also feature fellow OG Christopher McDonald as well as Travis Kelce, Bad Bunny, Margaret Qualley and Eminem, among others—premiering on Netflix July 25. But she wasn't sure of it until she received the call from Adam himself.

“I said, ‘If this is to tell me I’m not in it, don’t worry. I love you. Don’t even give it a second thought,'" she told E! News on the carpet the same night. “He was like, ‘No, you idiot!’”

Julie added that she was “super psyched” for the sequel, and her costar Christopher, who is reprising his role as Shooter McGavin, echoed how excited he was to return.

"What a great production it was," he gushed to E! News. "When they told me, I was so happy. I might have leaked it out a little too early, but hey, they forgave me, which is nice."

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