Are You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah stars Sunny Sandler and Samatha Lorraine friends in real life?

You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah is the adorable and charming new coming-of-age movie now on Netflix. The film follows in the footsteps of other popular movies about girlhood like Lady Bird and this year’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, though this time with a more humorous slant. What else would you expect from Adam Sandler and his teenage daughters?

Sunny Sandler takes the lead in the movie as Stacy Friedman, daughter of Danny (Adam Sandler) and Bree Friedman (Idina Menzel). Stacy is on the cusp of becoming a teenager and all she wants is for her bat mitzvah to be amazing. She and her best friend Lydia (Samantha Lorraine) have been planning their bat mitzvahs together for years and now the time has finally come.

But everything threatens to be ruined forever when Stacy finds out that Lydia kissed her crush, a boy named Andy Goldfarb (Dylan Hoffman), who comes between the two girls and their longtime friendship. Can Lydia and Stacy fix things and repair their bond? You’ll have to watch the movie to find out.

Whether you’ve only seen the trailer or you have actually watched the film already, you probably noticed that the two lead actresses have amazing chemistry together and seem like they could have grown up together in real life.

Are You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah stars Sunny Sandler and Samatha Lorraine friends in real life?

Despite their amazing chemistry together, Samantha Lorraine and Sunny Sandler were not friends prior to filming the movie. Director Sammi Cohen told Entertainment Weekly that the actresses blew her away during their audition together.

However, even though they weren’t close beforehand, Cohen says they bonded quickly and became best friends off-screen as well as on. Here’s her full quote on their friendship:

"They were not friends before, but they quickly became best friends. In the audition process, we read a bunch of kids for Lydia, and when Sunny was reading opposite Sam, the scene was incredible. We auditioned a comedic scene and then the scene at the door where they fight, and the scene itself, I was blown away — they have great on-camera chemistry. But what was interesting was after the scene when they were just engaging as people. It’s like when you meet someone and it’s like, “Oh, I feel like I’ve known you forever, and somehow you already have inside jokes and you’re already finishing each other’s sentences before and after.” I was just watching these two 13-year-olds interact, and I went, oh, that’s platonic love at first sight. It was really kind of the off-screen moments that sealed the deal. It’s hard to find that, it’s rare."

Don’t miss out on seeing Samantha Lorraine and Sunny Sandler acting opposite of each other in the Netflix movie You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.