THE LONGEST YARD (2005)
In Adam Sandler's remake of the 1974 football comedy, Cromwell costars as a morally challenged prison warden.

"Adam was doing another film and hadn't done anything in terms of looking at the Longest Yard script. So on the first day, I had the scene where I tell him he's going to coach the team. I had big chunks of dialogue. At one point, the producer comes in and says, 'Jamie, Adam hadn't been able to look at the script but he did this morning and he doesn't like this scene. Would you mind coming into the trailer to go over it?' There were 400 people called that day and he made them wait. I don't think we started shooting until about three. But Adam had realized it was a very pivotal scene and it was badly written for him. And he was right. So basically everything else from then on was sort of on the fly."