Bill Hader says he stopped giving autographs after a dad tried to use his kid to get a 'BB-8 thing' signed so they could sell it online

• Bill Hader says people looking for autographs don't like him because he's stopped signing.
• At the "Inside Out" premiere, Hader said a dad told his kid to try to get him to sign a "BB-8 thing."

Bill Hader is through giving his autograph after a weird experience at the "Insider Out" premiere in 2015.

The "Barry" creator recalled what happened recently on the "Happy Sad Confused" podcast.

On the podcast, it came up that Hader was one of the people behind the voice of BB-8 in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."

The podcast's host, Josh Horowitz, assumed he must sign a lot of "Star Wars" merch.

"I do not sign them," Hader said at the 40:00 mark. "Autograph people don't like me. I won't sign things."

But there's a reason why he's decided to stop.

"I used to sign stuff," Hader continued, "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," Hader said. "He was like, 'Go over there so he'll sign it so I can sell it online.'"

"I was like, 'That's fucked up,'" he said. "So now, I just kind of blanket, like, I'm not signing any of this shit."

Back in 2018, the "Barry" star told Insider how he ended up being credited for the mechanical BB-8 voice after failing to come up with an actual voice for the droid.

"That was just J.J. calling me up and saying 'Hey, man, you wanna come do this?'" Hader said of director J.J. Abrams, who knew he was a "Star Wars" fan.

"And I was like, sure. I did a voice initially, I tried it as a voice. And it didn't work. And I was like, 'Well, there you go, it didn't work,'" he continued. "And months later, I mean, there were billboards already out for the movie, and he called again and was like, 'You wanna try again?'"

"But anybody could do that, what I did," Hader said. "It's a Peter Frampton talk box with an app J.J. had."

We also asked if he gets any residuals for making up the BB-8 sounds.

"That's a good question, I should ask my business manager," Hader said with a laugh. "You're finding out how bad I am at this. If my dad reads this he would lose his shit. "You gotta know how much fucking money you have, you moron!"

"I mean, I would hope so," he added.