Josh Gad

Thank you.

And it's also complicated because my grandparents were both Holocaust survivors and their families were executed first.

simply for being followers of a faith.

So I can never fully abandon this thing that I've been – that is my birthright, whether I want it or not.

And so I'm – I find that finally at 45 –

I'm able to comfortably define religion on my own terms and also celebrate it on my own terms.

And my wife is Catholic and we are very, very open with the children about both of these things.

And we celebrate Christmas and we celebrate Hanukkah.

We celebrate Passover.

We celebrate Easter.

And what I love is,

is giving them the options that I was never given, giving them a direction and letting them choose their own path.

Well, this brings us back to the Book of Mormon because at the end of the Book of Mormon, Josh's character, Elder Cunningham, basically creates a new religion based on this weird sort of mashup of like Star Wars characters and – Lord of the Rings.

Lord of the Rings.

And he sort of mashes it all together.

Yeah.

And here's where our real lives intersect with our characters because Andrew calls this weird and I'm like, this is perfectly normal.

It's totally normal.

But it makes sense for the people in this Uganda village that he makes the religion make sense.

Yes, and by the Mormon church.