It doesn’t take long for a kid to watch the Muppets before they fall in love with them. Because I’ll tell you, there’s a visceral difference with the Muppets and CGI. You could touch Kermit; he exists in our world. You could potentially meet Kermit. But you’ll never meet Shrek; he lives in a computer. I saw a little girl hug Kermit [on set], and then we started filming a minute later and she was sitting behind the monitors, this like 7-year-old girl, and she screamed out, “That’s my friend! I know him.” I think that’s the difference when it comes to Muppets. But the last Muppet movie was twelve years ago. This generation, from zero to 12, they’ve grown up with no Muppet movie in their lives and that just seemed crazy to me, because it really influenced who I wanted to be.
Jason Segel (via meredithbklyn)
- Rainbow Connection is one of the songs i use to sing my son to sleep (there are only 4)
- at one time i was Kermie obsessed. any and everything i wanted/had was the greenster. because of this i still have some pretty awesome Kermit stuff to hand down so i can only hope that my son ends up loving him as much as i did thanks to this resurgence of Muppetdom
- i definitely watched the 2 best Muppet movies on loop* foor a very very long time and can pretty much recite them
- i came thisclose to getting a Kermit tattoo in my silly youth. i made a dumb choice to get something else and i really wish i’d gone with Kermit instead (although just not getting a tattoo at all would be my redo First Choice)
*and by this i of course mean i watched it, pressed eject, threw it in the auto rewinder, and popped it back in the VCR
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