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    Does the Cast of ‘Home Team’ Look Familiar? Here’s Why

    There are plenty of familiar faces in the sports comedy.

    By Jean Bentley
    Jan. 29, 2022

Home Team, the 10th film in Netflix's partnership with Adam Sandler's Happy Madison productions, features plenty of familiar faces from the comedian's orbit — starting with star and frequent collaborator Kevin James. James takes on the role of Sean Payton, the New Orleans Saints head coach who was the subject of scandal nearly a decade ago. After Payton was suspended for the 2012 football season, he coached his preteen son's football team instead. Before you watch, check out the stars of the new sports comedy and figure out where you might've seen them before.

Kevin James
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Kevin James

Who He Plays: Sean Payton, head coach of the New Orleans Saints who goes to Texas to coach his son's youth football team during a yearlong suspension from the NFL.

Where You've Seen Him: We apologize if you have not had access to filmed media in the past 20 years, but if not, you should know that James is a major sitcom star, having headlined The King of Queens for a decade, followed by hits Kevin Can Wait and Netflix multicam The Crew. On the big screen, you've seen him in classics like Paul Blart: Mall Cop and Grown Ups, plus their respective sequels, and other Netflix/Happy Madison joints like Sandy Wexler and Hubie Halloween.

Taylor Lautner
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Taylor Lautner

Who He Plays: Troy Lambert, the coach of Payton's son's youth football team.

Where You've Seen Him: Team Jacob members will never forget his turn as the star-crossed werewolf admirer of teenage vampire-lover Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) in the Twilight Saga, but the Michigan-born actor got his start as a kid in family-friendly films like The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D and Cheaper by the Dozen 2. In recent years, he's starred in Happy Madison production The Ridiculous 6 and the horror-comedy TV series Scream Queens.

Jackie Sandler
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Jackie Sandler 

Who She Plays: Beth, Sean's ex-wife and mother to his tween son who is currently married to Rob Schneider's Jamie.

Where You've Seen Her: Yeah, you probably recognized the last name — the actress has been married to Adam Sandler since 2003, after meeting him on the set of Big Daddy. But her connection to Sandler's crew goes back even further: she starred alongside Schneider in the 1999 comedy Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, and it was her Home Team co-star Schneider who recommended her for Big Daddy. Sandler has since popped up in many a Happy Madison production, including Little Nicky, Eight Crazy Nights, 50 First Dates, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, The Do-Over and many more, including Netflix films Murder Mystery, The Wrong Missy and Hubie Halloween. She also guest starred on James' sitcom Kevin Can Wait.

Rob Schneider
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Rob Schneider 

Who He Plays: Jamie, Beth's new husband.

Where You've Seen Him: Aside from Saturday Night Live (and, like, every Adam Sandler movie ever), Deuce Bigalow himself has also starred in various network sitcoms — Men Behaving Badly, Rob and Real Rob (yes, those last two are semi-autobiographical) — and headlined a slew of comedy films. He also spent some time as the Hamster on the sixth season of The Masked Singer.

Chloe Fineman

Who She Plays: Intern Emily, the Saints office assistant.

Where You've Seen Her: A little show called Saturday Night Live. Heard of it? Fineman joined the cast in its 45th season and became known for her impressions of stars like Drew Barrymore and Reese Witherspoon. In addition to work in other comedy shows including Big Mouth and Search Party, she stars in the upcoming Father of the Bride remake.

Isaiah Mustafa
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Isaiah Mustafa

Who He Plays: Porcupine Coach, aka the head coach of the rival youth football team.

Where You've Seen Him: A working actor for many years, Mustafa entered the pop culture consciousness as the handsome-as-hell Old Spice spokesman, and parlayed that position into roles in projects as varied as horror hit It Chapter Two and supernatural TV series Shadowhunters.

Sean Payton 

Who He Plays: Lionel the janitor.

Where You've Seen Him: Coaching the New Orleans Saints since 2006… except for the 2012 season, of course. While Payton has appeared on TV as himself before, he has a quick cameo as a janitor in this film, which takes its name from the title of his 2010 autobiography, Home Team: Coaching the Saints and New Orleans Back to Life.

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