K-2SO's smart-ass humor was one of the most entertaining elements in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The 7-foot-tall droid was voiced by Firefly alum Alan Tudyk. While promoting the movie, Tudyk talked about his casual approach when he took the audition in Nathan Fillion's house. Had he known upfront that director Gareth Edwards wanted him for the Star Wars standalone film, he probably wouldn't have been so casual about it.
"I just got a call that Gareth [Edwards] wanted to talk to me, and so we had a Skype session -- I was at my buddy's house, I didn't really take it that seriously," he told Fandango. "I was over at Nathan Fillion's house, and I was like 'Can I use your iPad -- I gotta go do this thing?' So I called [Gareth] on Nathan's iPad and just had a conversation about being a robot in a movie, and to be motion capture. I thought the conversation was because I had done I, Robot, but it was more than that for him. Then he asked me to formally audition, and I recorded it with my wife at home -- it was all real relaxed."
To protect the film's secrets, the audition included a funny scene that was not in Rogue One. "It was a scene where they were all landing on a planet that had a magnetic field that scrambled K-2SO's circuits," he said "And so he slowly became drunker -- first he goes really fast, then he slows down, then he makes the wrong calculations -- and then says, 'I can fly it -- give me the keys!'"
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is now showing in theaters.
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