--- title: Here’s BB-8 in a Bow Tie to Wish You a Happy Easter description: BB-8, Star Wars's most adorable droid, is dressed to impress to celebrate the holiday weekend. canonical: https://time.com/4272653/bb-8-bow-tie-daisy-ridley-rey-happy-easter/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-25T19:51:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:48:11.800Z og:title: Here’s BB-8 in a Bow Tie to Wish You a Happy Easter og:description: May the fashion be with you og:url: https://time.com/4272653/bb-8-bow-tie-daisy-ridley-rey-happy-easter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here’s BB-8 in a Bow Tie to Wish You a Happy Easter twitter:description: May the fashion be with you twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here’s BB-8 in a Bow Tie to Wish You a Happy Easter > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 25, 2016 7:51 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 25, 2016 7:51 PM UTC [BB-8](http://time.com/4240692/oscars-2016-star-wars-bb8-r2d2-c3po/), Star _Wars_‘s most adorable droid, is dressed to impress to celebrate the holiday weekend. Daisy Ridley, who plays Rey in [_The Force Awakens_](http://time.com/money/4247885/star-wars-the-force-awakens-digital-dvd/), posted a photo on Instagram on Friday of herself holding up her robotic co-star with the caption, “BB8 and I are wishing you all a very [happy Easter](http://time.com/4263556/easter-date-what-day-is-easter/)!” The black-and-white picture features a bow tie-wearing BB-8 next to a smiling Ridley — who drew a pair of bunny ears on herself for the occasion. **Read More:** [Daisy Ridley Learned the Hard Way That Droids Aren’t Adorable Children](http://time.com/4137324/star-wars-the-force-awakens-daisy-ridley-bb-8/) The post has already been liked over 63,000 times to date. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4272653/bb-8-bow-tie-daisy-ridley-rey-happy-easter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4272653/bb-8-bow-tie-daisy-ridley-rey-happy-easter/"},"headline":"Here’s BB-8 in a Bow Tie to Wish You a Happy Easter","datePublished":"2016-03-25T19:51:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:48:11.800Z","description":"May the fashion be with you","url":"https://time.com/4272653/bb-8-bow-tie-daisy-ridley-rey-happy-easter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","celebrities","Star Wars","daisy ridley","star wars: the force awakens","The Force Awakens"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4272653/bb-8-bow-tie-daisy-ridley-rey-happy-easter/","name":"Here’s BB-8 in a Bow Tie to Wish You a Happy Easter"}}]}] ```