 I was lucky enough that when JJ Abrams was making the new Star Wars film 
 he came home on a little break and he said, "Hey I have this new droid called BB-8, and I want him to have personality. 
  You know, everybody loves R2-D2, but I want to put him in situations where he can feel warmth 
 and he can be funny, and he can do all these things." 
 Because he had these big scenes with Rey 
 - and I can talk about it all finally -
 all these big scenes with Daisy Ridley's character, and John Boyega's character 
 and so the process was at the beginning. We wrote real dialogue for him. 
 So, there's recordings of me overseeing this. JJ would show me scenes, and I would say real dialogue as BB-8
 in response to whatever Rey or people were saying.
 And then, the goal was to give that to LucasFilms and they would turn them into beeps and boops. 
 So they tried it, and when it came back, I feel like it felt like… you can feel like it was a human being turned into beeps and boops. 
 So then they gave me a synthesizer, and this great sound guy named Robby Stambler 
 when we were in the room for hours, I would call us “The Beautiful Boys,” 
 because we both looked terrible. Nah, he's a great guy.  
 But Robby Stambler, amazing sound guy, and we did this thing where I would take this microphone that was hooked into a computer 
 and I'd literally try to do the beeps and boops. 
 First, we tried it with words, and it didn't work. 
 And then I tried to do the beeps and boops. And in the end, we did a bunch and bunch of scenes 
 and I was very fortunate and got to see the movie beforehand, and all this stuff and really work with it. 
 I don't know how much of those are in it, but I was told by the editors that all the dialogue that I did for the film was used while they edited. 
 So, if Rey, Daisy Ridley's character, is having a scene with BB-8, they would edit with my dialogue in there to know when to cut to back and stuff like that.  
 And I was so excited, because I don't know how much percent of my actual voice is in there 
 hopefully there is some, but I know that all the editors were so kind to me in saying that it really helped with the way they edit, and the cadence. 
 So, I think in the end, JJ took like an Pad app and literally did the whole thing off an iPad app. 
 But maybe listened to my voice and worked with the cadence of that. 
I got to go to the Star Wars premiere!  
 Are you kidding me?! I took my friend Gil Ozeri, one of the biggest Star Wars fans....
 It was 
 I remember..when we were in the lobby of the Star Wars Premiere
 Everybody that was coming in was the most famous person I’ve ever seen in my entire life. 
 And Gil and I were like, eating popcorn like two Mr. Beans.
Just like looking at people being like  
 It was just very exciting. 
 To give JJ a big hug afterwards..because I was fortunate enough to be around when he was doing the movie...
 It crossed two billion dollars yesterday..it’s bananas. I’m very proud of him. 
I think that movie is so lovely. And it just feels like Star Wars. Which is exciting. 
