The Oscar-winning actress said that Miss Piggy “would be storming out right now at the mere suggestion” that anyone else play her onscreen.

Emma Stone scoffs at suggestion she’s playing Miss Piggy: ‘Are you out of your mind?’

The Oscar-winning actress said that Miss Piggy "would be storming out right now at the mere suggestion" that anyone else play her onscreen.

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January 6, 2026 3:32 p.m. ET

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Emma Stone knows that Miss Piggy is in a *pig*-agree all her own. **

The *Bugonia* star, 37, immediately shut down the suggestion that she will be playing Miss Piggy in her and Jennifer Lawrence’s upcoming film. **

“First of all, that is the biggest insult to Miss Piggy that I’ve ever heard and I will not have her name dragged through the mud like that,” Stone told* W Magazine*. “Why would I play a literal star?”

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The Oscar-winning actress remained hilariously perplexed by the question. **

“She’s the greatest… what do you mean?” Stone asked. “No, of course I'm not playing Miss Piggy. And neither is [Jennifer Lawrence]. We pale in comparison. Are you out of your mind?”

She concluded, “Miss Piggy is playing Miss Piggy. She would be storming out right now at the mere suggestion.”

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Lawrence announced that she and Stone are producing the upcoming film, which is being written by Tony Award-winning playwright Cole Escola, on a November episode of Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers’ Las Culturistas podcast. **

"I don’t know if I can announce this, but I am going to … Emma Stone and I are producing a Miss Piggy movie and Cole [Escola] is writing it," the *Die My Love* actress confirmed at the time.

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While visiting *The Tonight Show *that same month, Lawrence explained that she was inspired to make the film after talking to a friend during lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

“During lockdown, one of my good friends, who’s not in the industry, was like… It was also kind of around cancel culture. It was like both things were kind of happening at once,” Lawrence said. “We were all locked up in our rooms, naughty people were being locked up in prison.”

She continued, “And [my friend] said, ‘Miss Piggy is a feminist icon.’ And she said, ‘It would be so funny if Missy Piggy got canceled.’”

Lawrence rushed in to affirm that is “not the plot” of her and Stone’s upcoming Muppet project, but that “it got the wheels turning” for them.

“So I started kind of producing it, but Emma Stone is the Muppet head,” she said, noting that she went to Stone for ideas on how to create the film. “So now Cole is writing it and they’re perfect,” she added.

Lawrence also confirmed that she and Stone will make an appearance in the film. “Yeah, I think so,” she said. “Yeah, I mean, I have to be, so yes.”

Just not, of course, as Miss Piggy. Watch Stone discuss the film in the clip above.**

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