His screen debut happened as an infant in an instructional film on natural childbirth.
[1] While at Zeno Mountain Farm, a camp for people with and without disabilities, Gottsagen met Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz.
At his request for them to make a film with him as the star, Nilson and Schwartz wrote and directed The Peanut Butter Falcon.
In the film, Gottsagen had a starring role as an aspiring professional wrestler with Down Syndrome.
[4] Gottsagen starred with Felicity Huffman in an ABC television pilot based on the life of Susan Savage, owner of the minor league baseball team the Sacramento River Cats.