Josh Gad In her forthcoming memoir, the Band-Aid comes off, In God We Trust: A Tale-SumProving that he is much more than that Just a musical Mormon and an animated snowman.

Triple threatened our weekly To look back exclusively at some of his memorable stories from the book (Tuesday, January 14), including his slow rise to fame, which required working despite tough times and obstacles along the way. Today, however, Gad can say he's officially made it. With this book, he tells both personal and professional stories. Confused about telling him to "say something"? The actor was quick to set the record straight.

“It's more of a joke. If anything, I'm all in and then some," Gad explained our. “I looked at the exercise, as I got further into it, as if it were therapy in front of a mirror. The more vulnerable I became, the more I allowed myself to go down that path — even though I was hesitant, scared, and maybe, resistant."

Gadd decided he wanted to "give people a reason to read this book", which meant being honest.

"It was kind of an obvious decision, but a profound decision for me because I'm not usually an open book — no pun intended," he explained. "I learned a lot about myself in the process of writing it and talking about all aspects from personal to career to family stuff."

D frozen The star writes about a father who was absent for most of his life and explains how it affected his own journey to parenthood. (Gad shares Ava, 13, and Isabella, 10, with wife Ida Dervish.)

For those interested in his Hollywood success, he also shares many career anecdotes.

"I had a hell of a time writing (the book), and I hope people who read it take away something that's useful and inspires them," he said. our. "At least, I hope they get a good laugh."

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Live from New York ... reject it

After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 2003, Gadd decided to give it a try Saturday Night Live. his friend Bryce Dallas Howard His father, the famous director of recruitment Ron HowardYet Gad was rejected three times - to open his audition tape.

"I love failure because it gives me a platform to succeed. Don't force others to give up on you. I think persistence is as important as skill," Gadd shared. “I didn't love it at the time, definitely hated it — but rejection was important to me and just as important to me as acceptance. A part of it is, 'F- I? f- you I will prove you wrong.'

A lifelong struggle

"I was always uncomfortable and ashamed of my overweight body," Gadd writes in the book. By 2007, Hollywood had put him in a "loud fat best friend" box when it came to casting, which he worried would continue throughout his career.

"It's always in the background," he admits our. “I hope discussing things like weight (and) struggling with severe anxiety gives people a sense (of), 'If I can be here and do this and overcome those things and still deal with them, you got it We've got it together.' I felt strongly that this was something I needed to talk about (in the book), as uncomfortable as it was.

An Icon Friendship

I see Aladdin At the age of 11, Gad was deeply affected. Robin Williams' Genie wanted him to voice the Disney cartoon character (which he did with Olaf in 2013 frozen) after Gad meets the legend during his run-in The Book of MormonThey started a friendship that soon ended. (Williams Died by suicide in August 2014 at the age of 63.).

“It's very frustrating because you imagine someone is going to be there forever. I plan to talk to him. We were talking more or less. I saw him, I think, a year before he passed," Gad remembered. "I could tell he was down. He wasn't his lively self, but I didn't really know what was going on. I didn't give him any conversation. Not meant to be, of course about myself. I feel grateful that he got the chance to talk about how he inspired me - it's something I told him in person."

A memorable encounter

years ago Kevin SpaceySince its fall, Rahmat, she was seen in the 2008 movie Gad 21. During filming, she wrote, Spacey would force her to do an "impression-off" at dinner in Boston. (The dishonorable actor faced Multiple allegations of sexual abuse Since 2017, which he has denied. He was acquitted of nine charges in July 2023.)

"It was a strange thing," Gadd said our. "But it also felt like a mark of respect where he was really, I think, tickled by the fact that I could do the voice."

Gad explained that he wasn't nervous when bringing Spacey into the book.

"I'm not saying anything untoward," he continued. “This is my life; These are the people I have encountered. Kevin Spacey might be one of them, and I have a very entertaining story to tell. I'll leave the debate to other writers but just tell you, hopefully, an anecdote that will make you go, 'That's wild.'