When we started talking about the show, it was a free-flowing conversation. We’ve all known each other for a long time. and came to Disney when they acquired the characters. When you talk about who that pragmatically is, to a great extent, it’s the Muppet performers, who have been guardians of these characters for a long time and then Debbie McClellan. It consists of some people I’ve known for a long time. The Muppets Studio is a small group within Disney. What kind of considerations does the Muppets Studio have when it comes to the liberties the show takes with Kermit and Piggy? He has moments of genuine joy and happiness coming up. In the premiere, Kermit seems so defeated and almost joyless. We were involved in levels of reality discussions where it’s, is this Kermit as Kermit or is this Kermit talking about a thing he did in a role as Kermit? These are not new discussions to The Muppets. I remember having these conversations 25 years ago with The Muppets. What’s the reality of Up Late With Miss Piggy, then what’s reality of the documentary shooting the characters and then we have what’s the reality that reconciles the characters with with their public persona. We rarely have a conversation about: How could they have filmed that? We’re all pretty much on the same page when it comes to where the boundaries of which reality are. I don’t know how it happened but when you’re making this project, you’re juggling three to four levels of reality and everybody seems to draw the lines between them in exactly the same place.
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