Via Nerdist.com:

If you’ve seen The Rise of Skywalker, you might have noticed something slightly different about the character of Maz Kanata. The diminutive alien was a performance capture CGI creation originally; actress Lupita Nyong’o portrayed her for her introduction in Episode VII. But for this newest film, she’s actually an animatronic instead!

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