Frozen actor Josh Gad was fat-shamed out of a role in Avatar, he writes in his memoir, because “I supposedly looked like a tall, overweight Smurf” when digitally transformed into one of the film’s blue characters.

The character as described sounds similar to Norm Spellman (Joel David Moore), who befriends Jake on Pandora and is conversant in both English and Na'vi. But neither Gad nor Cameron have confirmed whether Gad's role went as written to another actor, or if it was eventually written out of the working script for Avatar.

Josh Gad almost landed a role in the 2009 sci-fi epic “Avatar,” but he didn’t quite have the physical archetype James Cameron was looking for. In his new memoir, “In Gad We Trust,” the “Frozen” actor recalls while desperate to find a reprieve from starring in “The 25th Annual Putman County Spelling Bee” on Broadway,