Olaf (Josh Gad) answers your BURNING Questions About Frozen II

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what's going on guys I Moss the public right here with the voice of Olaf himself Josh Scott how are you doing today man I'm great I'm back home in sunny South Florida I love it having yet got quite the Sun Tim that I wanted but you know there's still time the curtains are open hopefully I'll get some of those Ray's frozen when I came out was such a big hit that no one saw coming did you expect that the original would be as big of a cultural phenomena it is today not at all none of us did I remember the first time I saw we saw it in an intimate screening on the Disney Animation lot and Kristen Bell and I looked at each other and and when this is really special isn't it and I remember thinking okay so we made a brilliantly you know super cool movie but is it going to connect with an audience right and I thought it'll connect with an audience but never in my wildest dreams that I expect that it would become this pop cultural zeitgeist the event and and you can never sort of expect that you can never really anticipated that now when you're making a sequel to as big of a movie as frozen is what kind of pressure is there especially when a character as as lovable as old office I think there's a lot of pressure and that's why I respected the creators so much for taking the time needed in order to come up with a story worthy of the original and you know they really approach it from the inside out they asked questions of the characters that genuinely needed answering questions that in a weird way informed the choices of the first film but were never answered in the first film and so once that was at the forefront of what our movie wanted to be they could tackle it from an intimate place that was challenged not only on an Elsa but Kristoff Sven and of course Olaf and whereas in the first movie Olaf is just as bundle of naivete and of youthful optimism in this movie he's sort of at this crisis of existentialism he's starting to challenge the status quo he's starting to ask questions that maybe don't have easy answers and that's both a great comedic opportunity but also a great emotional art there is a scene where you narrate the story of the original I was dying I was like yes so I'm saying now when people do recognize you as Olaf what is the most common line they say back to you when they hear the boys they ask me for mugs I mean I'm like pretty much a daily basis okay I'll get somebody somewhere asking for a warm hug oh my I was about this like oh look I've been paled people baby yeah I get that a lot but you know what's what's really crazy is I'll be walking down the street and because my voice is so similar to Olaf's kids we'll just give me this look and you know immediately what that look is you don't want to ruin it for them you don't want to ruin the fantasy of what they've imagined but it's still surreal now was there a particular day we were recording that it was so much like that you just couldn't pull yourself through it uh yes there there was a day without giving anything away there was a day where I recorded a scene and both Jennifer Lee the writer director co-director along with Chris buck and I were both struggling to get through it I think that the movie is so emotionally satisfying and and such an emotional roller coaster and what I hope is that people take away from it not only the same sort of feelings that they got from the first film but to take away from a whole new set of feelings about this world about this care about these characters and about the the new themes that have been introduced themes like yes you know part of going into the unknown means embracing your future but it also means reconciling with your past couldn't agree more than now it is the holiday season between Thanksgiving and Christmas which one do you prefer anyway wow that is a tough choice it's a Sophie's Choice right there I love both I think I would have to go with Christmas just because I just love I will I love the merriment like I just love the joy I love my kids Christmas morning opening their gifts by the tree but I do love a good Thanksgiving meal no meal beats Thanksgiving so I don't know if you know what these guys exist and that does talk whoa absolutely man that's me hey that is free [Music]