Without a juggernaut like “Avatar,” this year’s visual effects Oscar race is proving a competitive one, with VFX branch ...

Beauty and the Beast star Josh Gad, 43, said he nearly landed a role in sci-fi epic movie Avatar back in 2009 - but due to his weight, it didn't quite go to plan ...

If cast, Gad would've been seen as Jake Sully's best friend and translator to the alien race known as the Na'vi, a role which went to Joel David Moore, who plays Norm Spellman in 'Avatar' ...

best friend and translator to the alien race known as the Na’vi.” The role appeared to be scooped up by Joel David Moore, who plays Norm Spellman in “Avatar,” a close confidant to Jake ...

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 ...

"One of the first things I went out for was a new James Cameron movie called Avatar," Gad continued ... s best friend and translator to the alien race known as the Na’vi." ...

In his new memoir, “In Gad We Trust”, Josh Gad shares old stories and reveals that he came close to being cast in James Cameron's 2009 ...

Without a juggernaut like “Avatar,” this year’s visual effects Oscar race is proving a competitive one, with VFX branch members nominating the stellar work in “Alien: Romulus,” “Better ...

best friend and translator to the alien race known as the Na’vi.” Gad continued, “I apparently did not get [the role] because, while James Cameron was said to be thrilled with my audition, when I was ...

The character as described sounds similar to Norm Spellman (Joel David Moore), who befriends Jake on Pandora and is conversant in both English and Na'vi. But neither Gad nor Cameron have confirmed ...