I have had a go at driving the eyes and the mouth for Rygel remotely. And we’ve all picked up Rygel and held him at certain times and enabled him to live within a scene.

I tell you, it just made me appreciate how difficult it is to drive those things. When you watch the puppeteers, they put their hands inside electronic gloves attached to computers and those computers are attached to the animatronic. When you see the dexterity that they have to go through to create the consonants and vowels in each word it’s amazing to watch.

When you see the amount of rehearsal that those men and women have to go through to get it working as well as it does it’s fantastic. I’ve watched some, I won’t name names, but very famous, very big science fiction films, (cough) Star Wars, and the lip syncing on those characters is absolutely rubbish. Then you watch Pilot and Rygel and you see the dexterity within those animatronics and that’s when you realise that you’re at the cutting edge of where that technology is.