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Cole Escola Fuels Excitement For Their Much-Hyped Miss Piggy Movie In New Interview

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Cole Escola has opened up about their personal connection with Miss Piggy, ahead of their new film about the Muppets icon.

During a new interview with Tatler magazine, Cole was asked what makes Miss Piggy such a favourite of theirs, to which they responded: “She’s so awful. She behaves in a way we all wish we could behave. And we all do sometimes behave.

“I think her needs and desires come from a place of pain. And I think that is something that strikes a chord in people. But I don’t think any of that is visible, or it shouldn’t be. It should just be funny and fun.”

“Her incredibly high opinion of herself and her self-esteem and self-assuredness – all of it is delicious,” the Oh, Mary! creator added.

The incomparable Miss Piggy
The incomparable Miss Piggy

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Asked which real-life figures give “Miss Piggy energy”, Cole said their gut reaction was to say Donald Trump, before settling on Anna Delvey, the fraudulent fake heiress who inspired the Netflix miniseries Inventing Anna.

“Showing up to Fashion Week with the ankle monitor? That’s Miss Piggy,” Cole claimed. “She should be writing the movie, not me. She’ll run away with the money and not work, which is exactly what Miss Piggy would do.”

They also reacted to calls for Miss Piggy to play the lead on Oh, Mary! in the future, enthusing: “She’d be the best Mary. She really should have originated the role, but I was greedy.”

Cole’s interview in Tatler coincided with the news that they will be the next actor to portray the lead in the current West End production of Oh, Mary!, following Mason Alexander Park and Catherine Tate’s respective stints.

As well as writing Oh, Mary!, Cole originated the role both on- and off-Broadway, for which they won their first Tony in 2025.

Read Cole Escola’s full interview in Tatler here.

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Jennifer Lawrence Teases More Of Her New Miss Piggy Movie

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Jennifer Lawrence is opening up more about the new film she’s producing based on screen icon, Miss Piggy.

Earlier this week, the Die, My Love star teased during an interview on the podcast Las Culturistas that she and fellow Oscar winner Emma Stone were co-producing a new film centred around the legendary Muppets character, which Tony recipient Cole Escola would write.

Naturally, this news was met with a lot of buzz, with Jimmy Fallon grilling her about it further when she stopped by The Tonight Show on Wednesday.

During the interview, Jen hailed Piggy as a “feminist icon”, and explained that the germ of the idea for the new movie came during lockdown, at a time when so-called “cancel culture” was being debated extensively, and a friend suggested: “It would be so funny if Miss Piggy got cancelled.”

“Now, that is not the plot [of the film], necessarily,” the former Hunger Games actor was quick to clarify. “But it got the wheels turning. [We realised], ’wait, there hasn’t actually been, like, a feminist Miss Piggy starring [role]. So I started producing it.”

She revealed she then turned to Emma Stone for help with co-producing as she considers herself more of an “ideas guy”, while the Poor Things star is both a “Muppets-head” and a “shark”.

“I went to her to be like, ‘what do we do?’,” Jennifer added. “So now, Cole is writing it, and they are perfect. And yeah!”

Asked if she’ll also star in the project, she replied: “I think so. I mean, I have to be. I mean, I want to be.”

Miss Piggy first shot to fame in the 1970s, when she was introduced as the resident diva on The Muppet Show.

In the decades since, she’s become one of the franchise’s most cherished stand-out characters, most recently appearing in 2021’s Muppets Haunted Mansion.

Next year, she’s set to share the screen with Sabrina Carpenter in a one-off special revival of The Muppet Show, commemorating 50 years since the first episode aired, which will be written by Emmy winner Seth Rogen.

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