With Josh Gad,” the actor charmed the crowd with stories of showbiz, a sense of comic timing and a look inside his mind.

Frozen actor Josh Gad was fat-shamed out of a role in Avatar, he writes in his memoir, because “I supposedly looked like a tall, overweight Smurf” when digitally transformed into one of the film’s blue characters.

Josh Gad became the well-known actor he is today thanks to roles in Frozen, Beauty and the Beast, and the Broadway production of The Book of Mormon. But in another universe, the 43-year-old nearly got his big break in James Cameron's epic 2009 sci-fi film Avatar.

The role appeared to be scooped up by Joel David Moore, who plays Norm Spellman in “Avatar,” a close confidant to Jake Sully and an expert on the Na’vi language.

Josh Gad was denied the chance to star in 'Avatar' because he resembled a "tall, overweight Smurf" when he digitally turned into one of the blue characters.

In his memoir, In Gad We Trust, Josh Gad remembers narrowly missing a part in James Cameron’s Avatar. In 2006, Gad was begging to be let go from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and was told by producer David Stone that he could be set free if he booked another job.