"We finished all of our bits and they asked me to come down to camera. And I thought, 'Oh well, maybe they're going to say thank you for being one of the heritage characters and giving 30 years and all that.' But what they did was, they gave me a Millennium Falcon sign that had the day and the date on it, the scene number, and they said, 'Can you look at camera and say 'It's a wrap?' Because that would be really funny.""I was actually in tears in the suit because I thought – after everything, after hoping there'd be something, after knowing there wasn't going to be anything else, Ackbar's final moment before he went in to the box was just a big joke about 'It's a wrap.' They just thought 'Wouldn't it be funny?' And that was the sum total of my life as Ackbar."
I always felt that Admiral Ackbar got shafted with his offscreen and unceremonious death, but hearing his actor tear up really hit me in the gut, especially since he's now apparently being harassed for his reaction.
Edit: Removed the tweet since the account was problematic and replaced with a news article instead.
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