{"id":225494,"date":"2026-01-07T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/225494\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:39:08","slug":"emma-stone-is-indignant-you-would-think-she-dared-to-play-miss-piggy-in-the-new-muppets-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/225494\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Stone Is Indignant You Would Think She Dared to Play Miss Piggy in the New ‘Muppets’ Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Muppets\u2018 comeback is exciting to contemplate, with a Disney+ special<\/a> coming in February<\/a>\u00a0and a themed roller-coaster<\/a> opening at Walt Disney World later this year. But the most exciting iron in the fire is the Miss Piggy-centric movie<\/a> that Oscar-winning stars Emma Stone and Jennifer Lawrence dreamed up together, with Tony winner Cole Escola working on the script. Just don\u2019t ask Stone if she\u2019s going to be playing Miss Piggy, because there is only one Miss Piggy.<\/p>\n

The project came up in an interview with W Magazine<\/a>, in which Stone was cheekily asked if she\u2019d be taking on the role of the most glamorous Muppet. Her answer was equally cheeky, but we like to imagine some of this faux rage was actually genuine.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, that is the biggest insult to Miss Piggy I\u2019ve ever heard, and I will not have her name dragged through the mud like that. Why would I play a literal star? She\u2019s the greatest,\u201d Stone said. \u201cNo, of course I\u2019m 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Good to know her priorities are in order! Unfortunately that\u2019s just about the only thing we know for sure about the Miss Piggy movie, though we can imagine with this talent behind the camera, whatever emerges will be worth waiting for.<\/p>\n

And if you\u2019re impatient for more lavender accessories<\/a>, karate chops, feather boas, third-person referencing oneself as \u201cmoi,\u201d and frog lust in the meantime, Miss Piggy will be front and center alongside Sabrina Carpenter in The Muppet Show\u2018s big one-night-only return, February 4 on Disney+ and ABC.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Muppets\u2018 comeback is exciting to contemplate, with a Disney+ special coming in February\u00a0and a themed roller-coaster opening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[57690,146,85,46,76415,397,21144],"class_list":{"0":"post-225494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-emma-stone","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-miss-piggy","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-the-muppets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}