They were like babies.
We had to get older kids."
What a ham
The last actor cast was Patrick Renna, who played Ham.

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“But luckily I met Pat Renna.
He was a godsend.”
“Chauncey played a goofball in the movie but was the complete antithesis of that in real life.

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He was a little player,” says Evans.
“I said, ‘You listen to me.’
He’s looking up at me: ‘What?’

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I said, ‘You keep your tongue in your mouth.
You understand that?’
He said, ‘Okay.

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Can we do that again?’
I look at Marley and she laughs and goes, ‘Yeah.
We can do it one more time.'”

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For moreSandlotsecrets, check out the special featurettes on the movie’s newly released 25th-anniversary collector’s edition Blu-ray.

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