New Delhi: Actor Josh Gad, who essays the role of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in 'JOBS', feels the movie's script is as engaging as bestselling book series 'Harry Potter'.
'JOBS' is a forthcoming biopic on late Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple. He died of pancreatic cancer in October 2011. He was 56.
"When I got the script, I found myself just turning through the pages like it was a 'Harry Potter' book. I couldn't get enough of it," Gad said in a statement issued by PVR Pictures, which is releasing the film in India on Aug 23.
Talking about what he read of the late tech mastermind in the script, Gad said: "It was a side of Steve Jobs that I knew nothing about. My idea of Jobs was very much the media darling he became in the 1990s and later in the 2000s up until his untimely death.
"I was reading it going, 'Oh my God, this is incredible! How come I never knew about any of this?'"
Gad was more than willing to be a part of 'JOBS'.
"I immediately called up my agent and said, 'I have to be a part of this'.
Director Joshua Michael Stern says actor Ashton Kutcher, who stars as the late Steve Jobs in his biopic 'JOBS', shares the same enthusiasm for computers as the Apple Mac founder.
"He knew everything there was to know about everything that was going on, even historically, about the technology we used. I walked onto a set once and there was a computer processor that was there as set dressing, and he removed it and said, 'This wasn't invented for two more years'," Stern told Wall Street Journal.
Kutcher, 35, ended up in a hospital after he tried to follow the late entrepreneur's fruitarian diet. But he said that he wanted to do justice to the character, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
He also admits that the audiences may be apprehensive about his interpretation of the icon.
"People are probably going to watch and in some ways feel there are things I didn't nail. There's a lot of different perspectives on the guy," Kutcher told Wall Street Journal.
The people's verdict on 'JOBS' will be out after the film's first show on August 23. (With inputs from IANS)
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