John Boyega talks about how he feels about BB-8 – Full video
People who guested on Sesame Street or The Muppet Show often mentioned this phenomenon in interviews.
I’m reminded of a possibly apocryphal story where a talk show was doing a Kermit the Frog guest spot, and the sound technicians couldn’t figure out why the audio pickup was so terrible – until they realised that they’d unthinkingly attached the wireless mic to the puppet rather than the voice actor.
When I was two or three my father worked for a radio station and was tasked with interviewing a muppeteer when an exhibition came through a local museum. As it was a children’s museum my father took me with him, and he apparently had a heck of a time trying to do the interview because I kept interrupting to move his microphone back to the muppet’s mouth.