Bill Hader won’t autograph things after ‘f–ked up’ incident with ‘Star Wars’ fan

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Happy, Sad, Confused” podcast that he stopped giving out autographs after a distasteful late-night encounter with a fan.“I do not sign them,” the “Barry” star said about merchandise. “Autograph people don’t like me.

I won’t sign things.”He went on to detail the time a man used his kid to ask him to sign a BB-8 toy so the dad could sell it online.J.J.

Abrams hired Hader and fellow comedian Ben Schwartz as voice consultants for BB-8 in 2015’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”“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,” Hader revealed. “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–ked up,’ ” he added. “So now, I just kind of blanket, like, I’m not signing any of this s–t.”Though Hader is credited on the movie and many fans have asked him for autographs for his part as BB-8, he feels like he can’t take credit for the success of the character.“It’s very sweet that J.J.