Josh Gad has had something of a meteoric rise as an actor in the past few years. In 2011, he co-starred in a little Broadway show you may have heard of called The Book of Mormon. Since then, he was in one of the most successful movies of the past few years (Frozen) as well as a number of comedies (The Internship, The Wedding Ringer) and dramas (Jobs, Wish I Was Here).
In Pixels, he plays the younger friend to Adam Sandler and Kevin James’ characters, Ludlow Lemonsoff, a retro arcade gamer and conspiracy theorist who figures out that aliens have come to Earth in the form of arcade game characters.
We recently sat down with Gad and talked about Pixels, his love of video games (he was more of a Nintendo kid than an arcade kid), the possibility ...
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