Washington, June 20 -- Oscar and Emmy-winning actress Kathy Bates has revealed that she initially threw the script for the 1998 comedy 'The Waterboy' into the trash because she did not know who Adam Sandler was at the time.

Speaking in a recent video interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Bates recalled receiving the script for the sports comedy and dismissing it after reading only a portion of it.

"I didn't know who Adam Sandler was and I got a script. It was a football script, and I was like, 'Oh, let's give me a football.' Twelve pages I read and I thought, 'Oh man, I can't do this thing. This is ridiculous,'" she recounted.

She added, "So, I just tossed it in the waste basket, and my niece, who works with me, saw it and picked it o...