Three kids walked into a room full of cameras and journalists — and just like that, the ‘Harry Potter’ era began.
Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone have teamed up with Oh, Mary! Tony-winner Cole Escola to develop a movie about the iconic Muppets character Miss Piggy.
Lawrence, 35, opened up about the project while appearing on the Wednesday, November 5 episode of the “Las Culturistas” podcast.
“I don’t know if I can announce this but I am just going to … Emma Stone and I are producing a Miss Piggy movie and Cole is writing it,” she told cohosts Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers.
After Yang, 34, and Rogers, 35, squealed in excitement, they asked if Lawrence and Stone, 36, will co-star in the film. “I think so. We have to… It’s f–ked up [that we haven’t done a movie together],” she said, acknowledging that they have been close friends for years.
The film is currently in early development at Disney, which owns the rights to the Muppets, knowledgeable sources told Variety on November 5. It’s not currently clear who Lawrence or Stone would portray if they do end up having roles in the movie.
The temperamental diva puppet character was created by Bonnie Erickson and Frank Oz in the ‘70s. While Miss Piggy has been featured in several Muppets films, she has never been the main subject of a feature film.
Also during the podcast appearance, Lawrence opened up about potentially making her Broadway debut and revealed she was previously interested in playing the title character of Mary Lincoln Todd in Oh, Mary!
The comedy imagines the former first lady as an alcoholic wannabe cabaret star and is set just days before her husband Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865.
Escola originated the role of Mary Todd Lincoln on Oh, Mary!, while they also wrote the show’s script.
“The whole thing is a joke she’s in on,” Lawrence said of the show, which won two trophies at the 2025 Tony Awards. “I felt like I could be big and in on the joke.”
However, Lawrence said she likely won’t ever appear on Broadway due to the grueling schedule that includes eight shows a week.
“I don’t think I would be good at [theater]… it’s all your body and voice,” Lawrence continued. “The only time I wanted to do theater was I wanted to do Oh, Mary! They were like, ‘It’s eight shows a week and six weeks of rehearsal.’ I was like, ‘Do you have daycare there?’ It just wouldn’t have worked.”
