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‘I don’t question Dre. Dre says, ‘Do it again,’ you do it again,’ Rock tells MTV News of co-star/producer. By Eric Ditzian Chris Rock and Adam Sandler Photo: MTV News NEW YORK — Before we meet the grown ups of “Grown Ups,” which opened Friday (June 25), we get a peek back in time to the year 1978, when Adam Sandler, Chris Rock and their pals were pre-teens on a championship youth basketball team. They have braces and bad haircuts, rock painfully retro polyester duds with butterfly collars, and generally have you laughing at them the moment they pop up on the screen. But just how do they choose the young actors who’ll play the onscreen counterparts to these established actors? And, with Sandler as producer and co-writer, do the rest of the guys even have a say in the casting process? We put those questions to the “Grown Ups” on the red carpet , when the movie premiered earlier this week. “You would think Adam would have asked me, but no, I got nothing,” laughed co-star Rob Schneider, whose sports a poof to rival Snooki’s. “I think my kid is funkier looking than the other kids. But I trust him. The good thing about Adam, you know, he’s got your back.” That believe-in-Sandler ethos is one the rest of the cast subscribes to as well. “I trust Sandler,” Rock told MTV News. “Sandler’s Dre. I’m Snoop,” the comedian said comparing the pair to the West Coast super-producer and his onetime prot