Actor Adam Sandler , who has starred in the The Meyerowitz Stories, has said that whenever he gets a project out of the comedy zone, he makes an effort to be as good as he can be.

In the comedy which was recently screened at Cannes to positive reviews, Sandler plays one of two brothers, alongside Ben Stiller, in a dysfunctional New York family. The movie also stars Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson.

“I couldn’t believe we were doing this movie,” Sandler said. He said he got “misty-eyed” reading the script. “It’s different for a comedian when you get an offer like this …. My first thought is – I don’t want to let anybody down and work as hard as I can to know the material and be as good as I can be,” the 50-year-old actor said about the project.