Josh Gad speaks to ComicBook.com about how he celebrates Star Wars Day on May the 4th and the role he’d like to play in Star Wars.
When it comes to Star Wars Day, how do you and your kids and your family celebrate it? Is it just every day is Star Wars Day in your house?
May the 4th is the one day that’s … It’s every other day for me that is Star Wars Day, and that becomes my Sabbath. My day of rest.
No, every year is different. Sometimes there will be a lightsaber battle in my home, other times there will not. So it’s really those two variations that play out the most. I’m very excited about May the 4th.
Again, it’s the rule of two. It’s either there are lightsaber battles, or there are not lightsaber battles.
Or there’s not, yeah. There’s not much else, I wish I could tell you that my family and I use the Force on each other. We don’t. We don’t have that genetic attribute.
You love Star Wars, and you’ve even gotten to contribute to a variety of Star Wars projects over the years, and with the franchise growing, a lot of people are getting opportunities to enter the franchise in ways previously unavailable. For you, if there was the opportunity of, “Josh, we really want you to play a main character in a Star Wars thing,” and therefore it would ruin the mystery of Star Wars as a fan, do you think you’d jump at the opportunity to become an official part of the franchise?
Oh, yeah, absolutely. If they were to offer me Donnie the Hutt, like Jabba’s nephew or something like that, I would do it in a second.
I will tell you that I have actually been on the flip side of this where I have been invited to numerous Star Wars sets, and have learned things way before the movies came out that I was actually very sad that I knew. I saw Baby Yoda about a year before anybody knew about Baby Yoda, so that was both cool, but also slightly disappointing because then I couldn’t be surprised.
And also realizing, “Oh, this is just a puppet on set,” as opposed to an actual character.
Yeah, but it was a very cool puppet. I got to play with it.
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