Oslo, Norway ? Some Norwegians can’t resist Keiko, the killer whale made famous by the movie “Free Willy,” despite official efforts to keep him secluded.

An 8-year-old girl spent hours Thursday playing the film’s theme to the whale on her harmonica.

“That’s just the kind of thing we don’t need,” Colin Baird, Keiko’s trainer, said Friday. Baird is part of a $20 million effort to return the whale to the wild.

Keiko, nearly 25, turned up in a western Norway’s Skaalvik fjord in early September after swimming 870 miles following his release off Iceland in July.

The orca drew hundreds of fans who swam with him, petted him and climbed on his back until Norwegian authorities imposed a ban on approaching the killer whale.

Baird and the American organizations trying to rehabilitate Keiko are seeking a place in Norway where the whale can spend the winter around wild killer whales. The team has been feeding him about 150 pounds of fish a day.

Keiko was captured near Iceland when he was 2. The “Free Willy” films sparked his rescue from a Mexico City amusement park in 1996.