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Oscar winners Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone know that Miss Piggy is the bigger star
Emma Stone announces that she and Jennifer Lawrence "pale in comparison" to Muppet Show star Miss Piggy
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There are some actors who are just universally recognized by their peers as being at the top of their game. Who has not heard actors speak adoringly and admiringly about Meryl Streep, for example, or Robert De Niro? And then, of course, there’s the toppermost of the poppermost, the biggest star in the world — Miss Piggy.
Or, at least, that’s what Academy Award-winning actress Emma Stone seems to believe.
Stone is producing a potential Miss Piggy movie for Disney alongside friend and fellow Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence, which led some to assume that one (or both) of the actors would be playing the character in the movie. Turns out, that’s not what’s happening — and Stone takes umbrage at the very suggestion.
"First of all, that is the biggest insult to Miss Piggy I've ever heard, and I will not have her name dragged through the mud like that,” Stone told an interviewer at W Magazine when asked if she’d be playing Piggy in the upcoming movie. “Why would I play a literal star? She's the greatest. No, of course I'm not playing Miss Piggy. And neither is Jen. We pale in comparison. Are you out of your mind? Miss Piggy is playing Miss Piggy. She would be storming out right now at the mere suggestion.”
To be fair, Miss Piggy probably would storm out at the suggestion that anyone else would take her place in a project — never mind a project in which she, explicitly, is meant to be given the spotlight. But Stone’s in-character reaction to the rumor is a sign that the potential movie (to be written by Cole Escola, the Tony-award winning writer of Broadway hit Oh, Mary!) is going to hit the mark for longtime Muppet fans. Between this and the upcoming Muppet Show special in February, it’s beginning to look like a welcome renaissance for the comedy icons.
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