'Murder Mystery 2' director says Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston did a lot of their own stunts: 'I tried to put them in the worst possible situation'

• Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston did a lot of their own stunts in "Murder Mystery 2."

• The new Netflix sequel features more action sequences than its predecessor.

• Director Jeremy Garelick told Insider he tried to put the stars in "the worst possible situation."

Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler carried out a lot of their stunts in "Murder Mystery 2," director Jeremy Garelick told Insider.

The new Netflix sequel has more action scenes than its predecessor, including a major scene at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Speaking to Insider about taking over the reins of the sequel, Garelick said that he wanted to ramp up the action and even put Aniston and Sandler in some tricky situations.

"I knew that when I took this movie on, I wanted it to kick ass. I wanted it to be more of an adventure than just a straight murder mystery," Garelick said. "There were definitely sequences where I tried to put them in the worst possible situation all the time and then just figure out a way to use the action to get them out of the situation."

Garelick said that he was surprised by how game his lead actors were about performing some of the stunts in the movie.

"Surprisingly, they did a lot of their own stunts," he said. "We had incredible stunt people who were there when the producers were like, 'No, no. Adam, Jen, you can't do that. This is too expensive of a movie. We can't take that risk.'"

The director continued: "But they don't really have the opportunity to do those fun stunts and play like they did in this movie. When you are a kid, you get to swing from ropes and you get to hang out of cars and it's an opportunity to play. We were all playing and having fun and I think they enjoyed it and they wanted to do as much as they could that the studio and the producers would let them."

Last week, Sandler said on "The Jonathan Ross Show" that Aniston accidentally kicked him in the ribs during one scene in which she tries to wake him up.

"I thought she'd gently give me a tap. I get an Aniston foot come powerfully in. She's got strong feet," Sandler said.

The pair's costar Mark Strong also said during an interview on BBC's "The One Show" that he accidentally punched Sandler in the face during one of their scenes.

To top it all off, Sandler told Variety that he had to get a hip replacement after they wrapped filming on the movie.

"My god damn hip, I had to change that at the end of the movie," Sandler said. "I had been doing so many movies in a row. I did 'Spaceman' and I was hanging in a harness all the time. I kept saying, 'Something's going on with my hip, man. I'm in trouble.' And then during this and this other movie I did, I was like, 'Yeah, I definitely gotta X-ray that thing,' and we were in trouble."

"Murder Mystery 2" is now available to stream on Netflix.

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