I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.
Josh GadHollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.
Josh GadThere was a 10- and 8-year difference between us, so my brothers were into tormenting me and I was into getting away from them.
Josh GadJosh [Gad] is such an amazing improviser and is so good when the material is flowing from him that sometimes, if a written scene isn't working quite right, I'll tell him that we've got it and that he can just play. He'll blow us away with some super weird stuff and some wild things that we might use bits and pieces of in the edit, and then I'll say, "Just for good measure, let's do one more of the scripted version."
Josh Gad