“I’d love to do the Muppets again but Disney doesn’t want me,” Frank Oz told The Guardian in an interview published today. That’s right, the man who brought to life Cookie Monster, Grover, Fozzie Bear, Bert and Yoda says he is not welcome in Disney’s Muppetverse.
What about that other tentpole of the beloved Jim Henson-created circus? “Sesame Street hasn’t asked me for 10 years,” said Oz.“They don’t want me because I won’t follow orders and I won’t do the kind of Muppets they believe in,” he continued.
Just how does Oz describe the new version of the Muppets? “The soul’s not there,” he said. The soul is what makes things grow and be funny.” After years of wrangling, Disney bought Henson’s beloved characters in 2004.
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