Adam Sandler, Syracuse University

Fictional 'Big Daddy' character Sonny Koufax, played by Adam Sandler, graduated from Syracuse University's College of Law.

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Syracuse University alumnus Max Kessler's resemblance to Adam Sandler has finally caught the actor's attention.

Kessler, a 23-year-old accountant from New York, went viral on Reddit when he posted a photo of himself graduating from SU's Martin J. Whitman School of Management in 2014, shown side-by-side with a movie still of the former "Saturday Night Live" and "The Wedding Singer" star in his next Netflix movie, "The Do-Over." He also pointed out that Sandler's new character even has the same name: Max Kessler.

(Another coincidence? Sandler even played a Syracuse University graduate in 1999's "Big Daddy.")

"As I am getting older (closer to Sandler's age in the 1996 film 'Happy Gilmore') people are noticing it more and more," Kessler told ABC News. "People say I look like him, act like him and sound like him. The amount of people that are freaked out when they first meet me is crazy."

The Reddit post was viewed more than 5 million times in a week, eventually catching the attention of his celebrity doppelganger.

Sandler, 49, began sending messages to Kessler, challenging the younger lookalike to make funny faces like him. He attached photos to prove that it's really him, eventually inviting the "real" Kessler to "The Do-Over" premiere next week.

"Ok! You can come party with the better Max Kessler at the Do-Over premiere on May 16th! Rock n roll!" Sandler wrote.

Kessler told the Daily Orange that he's always wanted to meet Sandler, even going to an open casting call for Sandler's 2012 movie "That's My Boy." Andy Samberg co-starred as the estranged son of Sandler's character, though Kessler said casting directors told him he looked a lot like Sandler.

He jokingly told ABC that he still hopes to play Sandler's son in a future film.

"I'm ready for a 'Happy Gilmore 2,'" Kessler said.

"The Do-Over," Sandler's second original movie for Netflix, begins streaming May 27.