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Golden Globe actor Jennifer Lawrence announced she is co-producing a Miss Piggy movie for Disney, alongside fellow Oscar-winner Emma Stone. Lawrence revealed the news during a recent interview on the Las Culturistas Podcast. “I don’t know if I can announce this, but I’m just gonna. Emma Stone and I are producing a Miss Piggy movie,” she said. The Hunger Games actor added that Cole Escola, who starred in the award-winning Broadway comedy “Oh, Mary!” is writing the script. When asked if she and Stone would appear in the film, Lawrence replied, “I think so” adding that “it’s [expletive] up” they haven’t been in a movie together already. Lawrence expanded on the film’s origins during a “Tonight Show" appearance on Wednesday, telling host Jimmy Fallon that she and her friend came up with the idea during the pandemic lockdown and at the height of “cancel culture.” “She said, ‘Miss Piggy is a feminist icon. It would be so funny if Miss Piggy got canceled,’” Lawrence recalled. “Now that is not the plot necessarily,” she clarified. “But it got the wheels turning.” Miss Piggy began as a chorus pig on “The Muppet Show” in the mid-1970s before gaining a larger role in the series during the late 1970s and early 1980s, according to Deadline. The diva puppet is also famously known for her on-again, off-again relationship with The Muppet’s lead character, Kermit the Frog. The two characters have been shown alongside each other in several movies, including “The Muppets Take Manhattan,” “Muppets Most Wanted,” and “The Great Muppet Caper.”
