Bill Hader Shares The Moment That Made Him Stop Autographing Merchandise For Fans

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Bill Hader is opening up about why he doesn’t autograph merchandise any longer. While reflecting on his contributions to BB-8′s creation during a recent interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the Barry actor shared the moment that turned him away from putting a pen to paper for autograph seekers. Keep reading to find out more… Bill says that it’s not just BB-8 memorabilia that he stays away from, but also other merchandise from his other projects that many will just re-sell online. “I do not sign them,” he said. “Autograph people don’t like me.

I won’t sign things.” He then went into detail about the moment that turned him off: “You know what it was? I used to sign stuff, and then one time I saw somebody and they had their kid come up to me to sign a BB-8 thing and it was three in the morning.

I was leaving the Inside Out premiere and then we went to an after-party thing and it was super late and this guy kept his kid up all night. [He] was like, ‘Go over there so he’ll sign it so I can sell it online.’” “I was like, ‘That’s f***ed up.’ So now, I just kind of blanket, like, I’m not signing any of this sh**,” Bill added. Bill also noted that he’s given credit for BB-8 much more than he feels he deserves as well.

He says that all he did was “some voice stuff that just didn’t work.” “It’s very sweet that J.J. Abrams put my name on it, but I came in and did voice stuff for it that didn’t work,” Bill shared. “Then, he brought me in later and said, ‘Hey, do you want to do this.’ It was like a … talk box thing and then I did that.