Jennifer Lawrence Texts Emma Stone on Actor Awards, SAG Awards

“I think so,” she added. “We have to.”

The Mother! actress—mom to two sons with husband Cooke Maroney—later gave insight on how the movie about the temperamental Muppet, and “feminist icon,” came to be.

“During lockdown, one of my good friends who is not in the industry—it was also kind of around cancel culture, both things were kind of happening at once,” she said during a November appearance on The Tonight Show, “[my friend] was like, ‘It would be so funny if Miss Piggy got canceled.'”

And though Jennifer noted Miss Piggy’s arrest is “not the plot necessarily,” she said the idea “got the wheels turning,” which is when she reached out to Emma.

“Emma Stone is the Muppet-head,” she explained. “Also, Emma Stone is a shark. Emma Stone will turn around in a leather jacket with a cigar and be like, ‘Hey kid! Let me tell you a thing or two about Hollywood.’ So I went to her to be like, ‘What do we do?’”

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