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(Image is from a 2013 Huffington Post article - a long time ago, I know, but she did just play the Witch in Into the Woods in Orlando, which is a similar role.)

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This was part of The Muppet Script, a staged live reading of The Muppet Movie that took place at Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles in February 2025.

Here's the link to rent the full livestream for $15: https://www.dynasty.tv/products/the-muppet-script

From an interview with The Movie Dweeb during the 2021 press campaign for The Suicide Squad. One of my favorite celebrity interview moments ever.

A little bit of background: I'm in my early twenties, living with my (overbearing and strong-willed) parents because I can't afford to move out, and wanting to pursue a career in the arts. However, because of my lack of access to artistic opportunities, my parents enrolled me at a large state school where the only remotely artistic thing on the whole campus is fraternity houses that play loud music from their front porches. My parents did this because they're worried about my financial future, but as I've told them multiple times, bachelors' degrees don't get people jobs nearly as easily as they used to.)

Even if I wanted to go to that state school, it would have been awful:

- The classes were so large I was never able to ask my professors for help when I needed it, so I had to resort to cheating on almost every difficult assignment except the final exams.

- No one who worked at the tutoring center had ever taken any of the classes I was enrolled in, so they didn't know how to help me with difficult assignments either

- The counseling center never had any openings, so I was unable to process my emotions in a healthy way. I have a therapist, but I'm not able to see him very often.

- Because I was a transfer student*, one of the classes I was required to take was all about how every student at the school should consider themselves* lucky to be enrolled at a college with so many resources (no matter how unresponsive those resources are).

To put it bluntly, this past spring semester was one of the worst periods of my life*. And now I have* another year and a half to go (including summer classes!) before I can get a degree. Any time I try to incorporate ANYTHING new into my life, my parents' first concern is whether or not it will conflict with the college classes.

Two nights ago, after I had spent half the day fighting with my parents about how I feel like I have no control over my life, I had perhaps the most vivid nightmare of my life so far.

It was late August/early September 2026. I was in a lecture hall on the state school's campus, attending the first class I was enrolled in for that fall. The professor introduced himself, then asked each student to introduce themselves and say what their major was and/or what career path they wanted to pursue.

Several students said they wanted to be accountants, software developers, lawyers, and doctors. When it was my turn to speak, I mentioned the creative career I wanted to pursue. All of a sudden, someone wearing a shirt with the logo of the school on it came up behind me, put a gag over my mouth, and restrained my hands so I couldn't fight back.

The professor pretended the gagging wasn't happening. He said, "Well, if you don't have anything to say, let's move onto the next person." I could see several of the aforementioned students looking at me like I was the most insane person in the world. None of them were looking at the person who was gagging me.

A few minutes later, after more responses by hopeful accountants and lawyers, another student said she wanted to write and illustrate children's books for a living. Immediately, another person, identical to the one who was bounding and gagging me, popped up behind her and did the same to her. The professor once again ignored her muffled cries for help, and the other students once again looked at her like she was insane.

Even after I woke up and realized it was all a dream, I realized it wouldn't be long until it spiritually came true. I may not literally be bound and gagged when I'm on the campus of that college, but it feels repressive and omnipotent enough that I might as well be.