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After spilling the beans that she’s producing a Miss Piggy movie in development with pal Emma Stone, Jennifer Lawrence is teasing what might be in store for the beloved swine. The Oscar winner recently revealed what sparked the idea for her Muppets offshoot about the “feminist icon,” which Tony winner Cole Escola is penning, marking the character’s first solo outing since Jim Henson debuted her on The Muppet Show in 1976. “So, during lockdown, one of my good friends who is not in the industry—it was also kind of around cancel culture,” she recalled on The Tonight Show. “It was like both things were kind of happening at once. We were all locked up in our rooms, naughty people were being locked up in prison.” Lawrence explained, “Miss Piggy is a feminist icon, and she said it would be so funny if Miss Piggy got canceled. Now, that is not the plot, necessarily, but it got the wheels turning.” Noting “there hasn’t actually been” a solo project about Miss Piggy, Lawrence added, “So, I started kind of producing it. But Emma Stone is the Muppet-head. Also, Emma Stone is a shark … I’m, just like, the ideas guy. So, I went to her to be like, ‘What do we do?’ So, now Cole is writing it, and they’re perfect.” The Die My Love star previously revealed the news on the Las Culturistas podcast, noting she and Stone also hope to appear in the film. Starting as a chorus pig on The Muppet Show in the mid-1970s, Miss Piggy gradually became a bigger part of the series, before becoming an icon in the late ’70s and early ’80s. Despite Kermit being the star, she’s long hogged the spotlight from her froggy beau.
