[I'm] a huge defender of clowns around the world.

I feel much more comfortable as an artist collaborating with others because I feel more mature.

I have a very close friend who is a brilliant clown, and I always wanted to do a show with him. So I did one year at La MaMa Theatre. I had not done stilts before that show, and I had about two weeks to learn how to do that, and they were just made with off-off Broadway money. The ones that I had in Rogue One were made by [Industrial Light & Magic]. So they were really easy. They were made with actual prosthetic feet on the bottom. They were athletic, in a way. I could run in them. There was a bounce to them that I could use.

This movie [Moana] has a very small cast, and this was the role [Heihei] that they offered me. I loved voicing him.

It's closer to just acting in a film because it was a six-month commitment. We got to fly all over the world.

R2-D2 is like that, but I think because he doesn't speak actual words, his jokes don't land. It's really a hindrance. And the same with BB-8. But Artoo is a lot stronger.

I've signed a few Kaytoo photos and things and a couple of action figures [on ComicCon], but really it's not that many.