Jennifer Lawrence shares details on Miss Piggy film—praises Cole Escola

Jennifer Lawrence appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon this week and discussed even more details about the upcoming Miss Piggy movie she's producing alongside Emma Stone, with Oh, Mary! superstar Cole Escola attached to write the script.

"I heard you're working on maybe a possible film about Miss Piggy," The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon casually mentioned.

"I am," Lawrence said, noting that the idea came from a friend of hers during lockdown, which simultaneously happened during a period of "cancel culture." She recalled, "Both things were kind of happening at once. We were all locked up in our rooms. Naughty people were being locked up in prison."

Lawrence elaborated on the idea, "Miss Piggy is a feminist icon. She said, you know, it would be so funny if Miss Piggy got canceled." However, the actress immediately clarified — before viewers assumed anything — that this isn't necessarily the official plot of this new project centering Miss Piggy. "But it got the wheels turning," Lawrence reflected. "Like, wait, there hasn't actually been a feminist like a Miss Piggy starring in this movie. So I started kind of producing it.

"But Emma Stone is The Muppet-head [fan]. Also, Emma Stone is a shark," Lawrence explained. "Emma Stone will turn around in a leather jacket with a cigar and be like, 'Hey kid, I'm gonna tell you a thing or two about Hollywood.' I'm like the ideas guy. So I went to her to be like, 'What do we do?'"

Lawrence concluded, "So now Cole [Escola] is writing it, and they're perfect."

When asked if she would be in it, the actress said "I think so. I mean, I have to be. I mean. I wanna be."