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Dylan O’Brien Recalls ‘Really Bad’ Audition for Frozen 2

Dylan O’Brien is trying again at his audition for Frozen 2, which didn’t essentially go as deliberate.

The Saturday Night time actor not too long ago made an look on Late Night time With Seth Meyers, the place the host requested him about his failed audition for the 2019 animated sequel, which noticed Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel return as sisters Anna and Elsa, respectively.

O’Brien stated he didn’t go into the audition with excessive hopes of touchdown the position “as a result of I knew that I in all probability wasn’t going to get it.” The actor didn’t disclose which character he auditioned for.

“They’re searching for multitalented, multi-hyphenate individuals who can act and sing,” he instructed Seth Meyers of the musical movie. “And I didn’t examine, to be trustworthy, in all probability both.”

The Teen Wolf alum acknowledged that he “can’t sing,” however determined to audition as a result of he doesn’t “all the time really feel like an actual actor.” Nonetheless, Meyers questioned how lengthy it took the casting director to additionally notice singing wasn’t one in every of O’Brien’s prime abilities.

“This poor lady,” the actor stated. “I keep in mind, truly — this can be a particular element — she requested me, painfully, if I might get to the refrain as a result of she wanted to see if I had a sure vary.” O’Brien admitted he was “swimming within the first verse slightly bit,” however finally “went greater,” per the girl’s request, and “it was actually dangerous.”

“I knew. She knew. It’s okay,” he quipped, however Meyers requested in response, “Did she know you knew?”

“I feel so, as a result of when she stated to me, ‘Okay, okay’… She stated two ‘okays.’ I’ll always remember it,” The Maze Runner actor recalled. “After which she stated, ‘Thanks for coming in. I feel we’d in all probability want a little bit of a stronger singer,’ and I used to be already simply nodding, going, ‘Yeah, I do know.’ I used to be like, ‘Thanks for having me.’”

O’Brien added that general, the audition was a constructive expertise. “I actually solely keep in mind it fondly,” he stated, earlier than playfully telling Meyers, “After which I’m glad that’s what they selected so that you can ask me about.” 

“We needed you to have closure. Don’t you see, Dylan?” the host quipped, to which the actor responded, “It’s made me snug, truly. I’m critical!”

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‘Big Mistake’ Using Regular Voice for Olaf in Frozen

Josh Gad reveals the “massive mistake” he made when it got here to voicing Olaf in Frozen.

“If I might do it over again, I might not have lent that snowman my voice. I might’ve created a special voice,” the actor shared throughout a latest interview at Fan Expo Canada. “It’s very bizarre being in a grocery store and having a bit of baby go like this…” slowly turning his head to the facet.

“That was my first massive mistake,” Gad added. “However, you realize, folks inform me I have a really distinctive voice. Folks appear to love my voice, so I attempt to give it to them once I can.”

The Magnificence and the Beast actor lent his voice to Olaf, the wildly fashionable snowman, in 2013’s Frozen in addition to its 2019 sequel. He has additionally voiced the character in a number of Disney shorts. Glad is anticipated to affix Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel in Frozen 3, which hits theaters on Nov. 24, 2027, and a fourth installment that’s in improvement.

Gad additionally revealed on Tuesday, throughout an look on Stay with Kelly and Mark, that he realized in regards to the third and fourth Frozen movies whereas on trip in Greece, after they had been introduced at D23.

“Rapidly, my cellphone’s blowing up. And individuals are like, ‘Oh my God, I’m so enthusiastic about Frozen 3 and Frozen 4.’ And I responded, ‘So am I?’ I had no thought,” the Wolf Like Me actor stated. “No person thought to name us up and be like, ‘Oh, by the best way, we’re doing two sequels to your film(s).’”

He continued to tease, “However I’ve since heard some issues about it, and it will be unbelievable. I’m so enthusiastic about what they’re dreaming up proper now. It’s fairly unimaginable.”

Frozen 3 to Hit Theaters Over Thanksgiving in 2027

Frozen 3 will skate into theaters on Nov. 24, 2027.

The official date got here days after Walt Disney Animation’s chief inventive officer Jennifer Lee shared the primary idea artwork for Frozen 3 at D23, the place she additionally revealed it would arrive in cinemas someday in 2027.

As beforehand introduced, she confirmed a fourth movie can be within the works.

The Frozen franchise has been a boon for Disney and a Thanksgiving staple; 2013’s Frozen, starring Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel, earned $1.28 billion, whereas Frozen II (2019) introduced in $1.45 billion.

Frozen 3 was initially set to open in 2026, however like many occasion pics, confronted delays as a result of pandemic and the strikes. Lee wrote and co-directed the primary two movie with Chris Buck.

The Frozen movies inform the story of two royal sisters who’re orphaned when their dad and mom, the king and queen of Arendelle. Elsa, voiced by Menzel, is anointed queen, however her harmful icy powers pose main challenges. Bell voices, Anna, her beloved youthful sister.

The artwork proven at D23 featured Elsa driving on a horse, whereas Anna was on a special horse with Olaf, the wildly in style snowman voiced by Josh Gad.

Disney additionally introduced that Pixar’s Hoppers will arrive on March 6, 2026. The function was revealed at D23, and voice stars Jon Hamm and Bobby Moynihan in a film a couple of beaver and a human who trade our bodies.

And the studios reaffirmed the brand new title of James Cameron’s upcoming twentieth Century film, Avatar: Hearth and Ash, which hits theaters Dec. 19, 2025.