We talk to Kermit The Frog and Miss Piggy about Muppets, the Midlands, and Jason Statham…

Arriving in UK cinemas on Friday is the eighth cinematically released Muppet movie,Muppets Most Wanted.

Given the magnetic pull of the icons of their icons, thats an easy request to cede to).

Piggy: Give them time…!

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Kermit: Were working on it.

Kermit: Okay, okay.

So, for instance, a Miss Piggy origins movie is surely crying out to be done.

They did it for Wolverine…

Kermit: Yeah, yeah.

Piggy: Its true, yes.

That would be great.

But you are a lady of secrets.

How much of your story are you willing to reveal on the big screen?

Piggy: Look, its a movie.

We can dress it up a little bit.

We can make it up!

So The Pig Lebowski, something like that?

Kermit: I like that!The Pig Lebowski!

Im surprised I didnt think of that.

Well, you start the new movie off with pitches of possible movies.

Which were the ones you didnt fit into that song?

Kermit: Now, lets see, what didnt we get in?

Piggy: Well, there was the disaster movie, where the world ends and we get married.

Kermit: Yeah, thats true, thats true.

Piggy: And live happily ever after.

Kermit: We have a post-apocalyptic marriage.

Kermit: Thats a valid point.

I suppose you couldnt do a divorce film unless you did a marriage film.

Kermit: Yeah, lets skip straight to that.

Kermit: So I have to be put into a marriage situation first.

I see, I see.

Do you have lots of riches Kermit, that Piggy can take in the divorce settlement?

Its just my little pad in the swamp.

She wont get much.

Piggy: I dont even wanthalfof that.

Obviously youve come back to England in this film.

That would be far more convenient for me…

Kermit: Should we just do that?

It could be a small independent film.

Have you not been to Dudley?

Kermit: I have not.

Piggy: Would people like it if we took Dudley?

I think there would be significant cultural ramifications to you doing so.

Kermit: Are there moors in Dudley?

Kermit: A zoo?

See: youve got a movie there…

Kermit: A haunted zoo?

That sounds like a Muppet movie.

Horror is something youve not done.

Fozziestein, something like that?

Kermit: Thats true, thats true.

Weve talked about that for many, many years.

Maybe doing some kind of Halloween thing.

But weve never quite done it.

I think itd be great.

We could get Alice Cooper to come back and work with us.

Piggy: The Muppets are pretty scary on their own.

Kermit: Some of them are.

What about Waldorf vs Statler?

Thatd be my dream horror movie…

Kermit: Yes!

Its our horror movie every show!

So how do you go about auditioning your directors?

Youve allowed James Bobin back for a second time now.

Kermit: Well, he only had to audition for the first film.

Piggy: I didnt even know he was our director, until our premiere last night.

I finally met him.

Kermit: You didnt spend that much time on the set.

Piggy: No, I spent most of my time in my dressing room.

With over 20 outfits, apparently.

Every time I came into the film, I wanted to check that I was wearing something different.

Were there any particular demands that you gave her that she couldnt meet?

Kermit: And she did.

Piggy: She did.

Kermit: The wedding gown in the movie is all recycled plastic.

I take it you wrote the wedding scene into the film then Piggy?

Piggy: Oh no, no.

I didnt write it.

[Laughs] I merelydemandedit.

So how was Celine Dion then?

Youve got a big number where shes graciously plays a supporting role alongside you…

Kermit: Well said.

She knows her place.

Piggy: Were very different, actually.

It was a pleasure to have her join moi for my big number.

And I hope it does something for her career, I really do.

Did you have to give her some extra singing coaching?

I didnt want to embarrass her like that in front of so many people.

So I just went into the studio later on and sang some of those high notes for her.

The ones she couldnt hit.

What would you want them to take from it?

Piggy: Our previous movie,The Muppets, was steeped in nostalgia.

So I would like to do movies for children today.

Like with this movie, so they will be nostaligiac for us another 20 years from now.

Its all about keeping our careers going.

Kermit: Another 20 years when Ill be 80, and youll be 30, right?

Piggy: Im not going to be 30!

[Huffs]

Kermit: I hope they laugh a lot.

I think its good that they laugh.

Piggy: You knew him didnt you?

Kermit: I met him once, yes.

Kermit: Doing this because you like it.

Doing this because youre driven to do it.

Its nice for it to be successful, thats always nice.

Its nice for critics to like it.

Piggy: Kermit has always said that he just wants to make people happy.

And thats something that you told me Jim had the same feelings about.

Kermit [nods]: He did, he did.

Piggy: I did not know him but he sounds like a wonderful person.

Given your British heritage, I hope youll indulge a particular UK success story for us.

Kermit: I feel horrible.

I dont want to say that I dont know who Jason is, but youve caught me off-guard.

[A list of The Stathams movies is presented, and Kermit and Piggy peruse it].

Piggy: I dont know him either, but I like that his name kind of rhymes.

Jason Statham, Jason Statham.

Is that his real name?

[Piggy keeps reading the list]

Kermit: Oh wait,The Expendables 2?

Hes inThe Expendables 2?!

Which one is he?

He plays Lee Christmas.

[Piggy murmurs as she continues reading down the list]

Were you approached about The Expendables films?

After Muppets Most Wanted, youre an action star!

Kermit: Well, yes.

I didnt have the body for it.

Piggy: I have not seenanyof these movies!

You cannot call him a movie star if I have not seen him.

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