STAR Wars actor Tim Rose is frustrated at the amount of secrecy surrounding the latest addition to the famous franchise, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens.
ROSE, who played Admiral Ackbar in Star Wars Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), reprises his role for the highly anticipated seventh movie but can reveal very little about his character or the film.
"I'm very frustrated by that," Rose told AAP in Sydney.
Secrecy surrounding the movie is at an all-time high and Rose said this makes it harder for him to do his job.
"Out of the need to be secret, we're not actually able to get everything we need to do our jobs as well as we could," he said.
"And as someone who has been doing it for 35 years, I find it very frustrating."
Rose works as a puppeteer and gets into a full-on costume to operate and play the animatronic character of Admiral Ackbar.
It is a role he never expected to return to, likening the arduous conditions of acting in the costume to Guantanamo Bay.
The experience emulates methods used to interrogate terrorists at the US detention camp, he said, including sensory deprivation, suffocation from lack of air and the rise in body temperature from wearing the foam latex suit.
"It takes a unique sort of masochist to ever want to do it in the first place. But the joy of doing it is the joy of animatronics, and that's taking the foam latex, an inanimate object, and making people think it's alive."
Rose said a lot of people think anyone can don the suit and the results will be the same, but he argues every puppeteer brings something unique to their character.
"I'd like to think I gave Ackbar something special which you can tell. I think you can. I can tell when I see my friends who do specialised and full body suit work no matter what character they go into; I can tell you exactly who it is because I know their movements so well," he said.