Star Wars: The Force Awakens: BB-8 was voiced by Bill Hader and Ben Schwartz
'At first I tried doing a voice, but we all agreed it sounded too human'
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Your support makes all the difference.Star Wars: The Force Awakens is finally out in cinemas (Woohoo!). If you have seen the film, the chances are you didn’t hang around for the entire credits to roll out, probably excited to get out and chat to your friends about what you just saw.
Luckily, however, one of the journalists at HitFix did stick around and read all the names that appeared on screen.
Surprisingly, there was a credit for ‘BB-8’s voice consultant’. If you’re not aware who (what) BB-8 is, it is the little football droid that’s now everywhere, including on bags of oranges.
Of course, you would presume that those beeps and boops were all computer generated by some random tech guy, but it turns out that a prominent comedian was behind it: Bill Hader.
"JJ [Abrams] f**king around with this sound effects app on his iPad that was attached to a talk box operated by me,” he told HitFix.
“It looked ridiculous but it made BB-8's voice. At first I tried doing a voice, but we all agreed it sounded too human.”
Ben Schwartz - best known for House of Lies -also helped out in an unknown capacity, billed alongside Hader in the credits.
It is unknown how much of the pairs voice work made it into the final film. Hader has previously done voice work with Abrams, having provided the voice for the USS Vengeance’s computer in Star Trek Into Darkness.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is out now,
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