Josh Gad wrote in his new memoir 'In Gad We Trust' that he auditioned to play the character Norm Spellman in James Cameron's first 'Avatar' movie, but was told that he "supposedly looked like a tall, overweight Smurf" when his likeness was turned into the avatars of the franchise's signature blue Na'vi species.
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