Frozen star Josh Gad makes dream come true as he shoots Little Monsters in Sydney
A LOT has changed for Josh Gad since he last worked in Sydney. Now a big Hollywood star — he’s the voice of Olaf in Frozen — the 36-year-old spent six months on exchange studying but now he’s back in the country to shoot Little Monsters alongside an Oscar winner.
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A LOT has changed for Josh Gad since he last worked in Sydney.
Now a big Hollywood star — he’s the voice of Olaf in Frozen — the 36-year-old spent six months on exchange at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts back when he studied drama at Pittsburgh’s famous Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Arts.
“It was always a dream of mine to professionally work here and now, cut to all of these years later and I’m back here making a movie,” Gad told Confidential.
“It is a dream come true.”
Gad is based in Sydney for the eight-week shoot of Little Monsters which is directed by Abe Forsythe and also stars Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o and local star on the rise, Alexander England.
“It is a little Aussie film,” he said. “I had been doing a lot of bigger films, whether it was Beauty And The Beast or Murder On The Orient Express and dramas like Marshall, and so I was looking to get back into comedy a little bit.”
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He added: “Every comedy I read just wasn’t very funny and then this small little movie was passed on by my agents and I immediately started crying with laughter at this character.”
Gad plays children’s entertainer Teddy McGiggle in the film about a schoolteacher, Miss Caroline (Nyong’o) who takes her class on an excursion before a sudden zombie outbreak.
Production on the movie will continue around Sydney until mid December.
Originally published as Frozen star Josh Gad makes dream come true as he shoots Little Monsters in Sydney
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