Picture this: You voiced a beloved character in one of the most successful Disney animated musicals of all time. So you know the words to all the big songs, right? Not if you’re Josh Gad.
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During an appearance on Good Morning America, the actor — who, as you probably know, is the voice of everyone’s favorite snowman Olaf — admitted that he doesn’t know the lyrics to the movie’s BIG song, “Let It Go.”
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People all over the world know “Let It Go” — but Josh doesn’t.
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OK, so here’s where things get messy: Last month, he appeared onstage with Frozen co-stars Kristen Bell and Santino Fontana at a Carnegie Hall event honoring songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez — who, you guessed it, wrote “Let It Go.”
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“There was a little monitor, but everybody was like, ‘Yeah, Josh, just move over, you know it already, we don’t even need this,'” he recalled.
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“I’ve got the mic, and I’m doing, ‘The stars are bright, and the mountains are light, and you know that things are nice,’ just making up lyrics,” he continued.
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“Not a single word was correct. It was a disaster. And of course — this is a true story — I had the only working mic on the stage.” Yikes.
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“People assume that because I’m in Frozen that I know the lyrics to ‘Let It Go’,” he also correctly asserted, before clarifying that he, indeed, does not.
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Maybe we’re being too hard on Josh. I mean, if Idina Menzel — who, among other things, is famous for singing “Let It Go” — didn’t know the words…now that would be bad.
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Watch Josh’s entire interview here.
