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For all its jokes, Adam Sandler‘s new Netflix movie Hubie Halloween ends on a somber note: A dedication to actor Cameron Boyce, who died at the young age of 20 shortly after he had begun production on Hubie Halloween.
After the Hubie Halloween credits, Boyce’s photo appears on the screen next to a dedication that reads:
“In loving memory of Cameron Boyce. Gone way too soon and one of the kindest, coolest, funniest, most talented kids we knew. You live on forever in our hearts and are truly missed every day.”
Boyce was an actor beloved for his roles in popular Disney Channel titles, Jessie and The Descendants. He died on July 6, 2019 due to an epileptic seizure, having previously been diagnosed with epilepsy. He was 20 years old.
Boyce began his career at the age of nine and worked closely with Sandler as his on-screen son in the 2010 comedy Grown-Ups and its 2013 sequel Grown-Ups 2. The day after Boyce’s death, Sandler penned a heartfelt tribute on Instagram, writing, “All our hearts are broken.”
Boyce was also known by many for his starring role as Luke Ross in Disney Channel’s comedy series Jessie, as well for playing Carlos in The Descendents films. He recently appeared posthumously in the HBO miniseries, Mrs. Fletcher.
Earlier this week on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Sandler explained that he had planned to work with Boyce again on Hubie Halloween, and that Boyce died just before they started filming.
“[He passed away] just a few days before filming,” Sandler said in a virtual interview with Fallon. “That kid was a great kid. His family is amazing. I know him from Grown-Ups. He was a little kid in Grown-Ups. I watched him grow up and become a superstar. My kids worshiped him. He came to my daughter’s bat mitzvah. He came and literally signed—I mean, that bat mitzvah was gigantic, there were 400 kids there, and he signed every kids autograph. He was just the nicest kid. He would always have charities going on. He would always speak to me, ‘Can you do this, can you do that?’ It was always for charity. He never cared about anything else. Just a nice solid, talented kid.”
