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Josh Gadis finding himself in some hot water… or milk, in this case.
The actor behindFrozenfan favorite character Olafposted a “depressing” snippetto his Instagramon Tuesday, in which a hot chocolate bomb in the shape of the enchanted snowman slowly melted in a pot of boiling milk.
Gad, 40, along with his wifeIdaDarvishand daughtersAvaandIsabellacould be heard in the clip as they watched, with Gad remarking at one point, “This is very depressing.”
He also cued Ava, 10, and Isabella, 7, to join him in an a cappella version of theFrozen IIsong “When I Am Older,” which features Olaf reacting to nefarious things happening around him.
“Not gonna lie: mixed feelings about this hot chocolate bomb,” Gad captioned the clip.
Last holiday season,the funnyman told PEOPLEthat even though he’s famous for voicing Olaf, he’s actually “not very good” at building snowmen himself.
“I’m not very good at that task,” he said at the time, with a laugh. “You would think that I would have it down, but growing up in South Florida has really not proven helpful in that endeavor.”
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In fact, Gad said he didn’t experience his first winter until he went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University.
“And ever since, I have just loved having a change of seasons,” he said. “But specifically, winter because there’s something just so warm, ironically, about this part of the year. There’s something wonderfully hopeful about it.”
As for Gad’s daughters' love of snowmen, he revealed there’s some competition between Olaf and Frosty the Snowman.
Gad and Darvish were married in 2008 and welcomed Ava in 2011. They had their second daughter Isabella in 2014.
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As it turns out,Ava even indirectly inspired Olaf’s character directionin the secondFrozenfilm, thanks to a now viral video that showed her realizing for the first time that she will eventually have to grow up.
Thethrowback video, which Gad posted publicly in January 2020, shows Ava when she was younger, in tears at the thought of not being a child forever.
Of “this difficult ‘coming of age’ moment,” theAvenue 5actor wrote in the caption that he “constantly look[s] back at it as a reminder of the fragility of youth and our struggle to make sense of our place in this rapid world.”
He also wrote that he shared the clip with “our brilliantFrozen 2team at the time and said, I believe this should be Olaf’s journey inFrozen 2,” later adding: “I’m beyond grateful they felt the same way because growing up is so very hard and all of us have this moment at some point in our lives.”
source: people.com
