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Behind the scenes Babu Frik was a character created for the 2019 film Star Wars: Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker, the third and final installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy. He was voiced by British actress Shirley Henderson.[3] He was first revealed during the 2019 Force Friday merchandise reveal.[8]

According to sound editors David Acord and Matthew Wood, Henderson learned to puppeteer for the role so she could "improv and actually move the character's mouth. She was puppeteering while she was doing the improv for the character. She came up with that language and performed it that way. We preserved all of her production sounds, and that was entirely shot on set, live, with her own movement."[9]

Babu Frik originated in a January 2018 version of the story. Then called "Babu Zazi," he was going to give the heroes an almost-finished device that could have shut down all First Order technology when completed.[10] According to special effects artist Neal Scanlan, though he isn't sure if it's actually true, he believes that when J.J. Abrams screened The Rise of Skywalker to Steven Spielberg, Spielberg asked Abrams what happened to Babu Frik, as the character was supposedly originally going to die when Kijimi was destroyed as recalled to Ivan Manzella. Henderson herself expressed surprise upon Frik's reappearance during the Battle of Exegol sequence, where he was inserted by the Industrial Light & Magic crewmembers.[11]