Bill Hader Says A "F**ked Up" Star Wars Encounter Made Him Stop Signing Autographs

Actor Bill Hader no longer signs any autographs, and he has a pretty good reason for saying no to people coming up to him and asking for his signature. Hader appeared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast and said a "f**ked up" situation involving Star Wars made him refuse to sign any further autographs.

Hader used to sign things for fans, but things took a turn for the worse after he provided voice work for BB-8 in the new Star Wars movies. Hader said a father kept his child up in the early hours of the morning to find Hader and ask for an autograph--but not for him, and not for a good reason. Here's the story (via Variety):

"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.'"

Hader said that after this "f**ked up" encounter, he decided to just stop signing autographs altogether.

Hader did some voice work for BB-8 in The Force Awakens alongside Ben Schwartz. Hader said it's "very sweet" that Abrams credited him even though much of what he did "didn't work." Hader didn't come back for the sequels because "anybody can do that," he said of talking into a voice-modulating machine to create BB-8's sounds.

Hader stars on HBO's Barry, which just returned for its fourth and final season in April.