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"FacebookPinterest\n\n There are certain things we've come to expect from a Jason Segel movie: couch-sitting, bong-hitting, and above all, dick-joking. Which is why the notion of our favorite man-child teaming up with felt puppets and making a kids' flick initially felt so...natural? We envisioned a Muppets reboot wherein Beaker blows up the house experimenting with pot cookies. Instead, Segel has delivered something much better and trickier: a genuinely sweet, funny family movie without a hint of cynicism or Segel's dong. Of course, his co-star is naked for nearly the entire movie. Since this is a men's magazine, we asked him about it.\n\nGQ: Both of you are well-known actors, but somehow you had never worked together. Were you fans of each other's films?\n\n Jason Segel: When you're a kid, Kermit is Jimmy Stewart, he's Tom Hanks, he's the Everyman, and it really inspired me as to what I want to be as an actor.\n\n Kermit: Aw, that's so nice! I do like Jason's movies! Especially Forgetting Sarah Marshall\u2014that opening scene inspired me to continue to work naked.\n\nGQ: Yes, you don't seem to have a problem with nudity. Have you ever used a body double?\n\n Kermit: I have, mostly in the love scenes with Miss Piggy. In a really, really wide shot, we can use a watermelon.\n\nGQ: Are you two still a couple?\n\n Kermit: I've known Piggy for a number of years\u2014a number of decades, really, though she might not appreciate that candor. But yes, there is a spark for certain, and it is still sparking. Passion, I would say. It's passion to either extreme.\n\nGQ: Jason, the Muppets have a much more innocent comedy style than what we're used to seeing you do. What's appealing about it?\n\n Jason Segel: I have a very simple answer to that: The Muppets are never mean. To anyone. They go for genuine old-timey laughs and puns, and it's never at anyone's expense.\n\nGQ: Did you consider anyone else for the role of Kermit?\n\n Jason Segel: We didn't know if we could get him, so our backup plan was Morgan Freeman.\n\nGQ: I only ask because it's been twelve years since Kermit's last big-screen movie. People were starting to wonder if he'd had a breakdown.\n\n Kermit: You know, it's a funny thing. It may have been twelve years in people years, but for frogs that's only about eight months.\n\n Jason Segel: It was a short hiatus for you, basically.\n\n Kermit: Plus, a lot of my fans actually live under rocks.\n\nGQ: Speaking of living on a different timescale, are you immortal?\n\n Kermit: I don't think so!\n\n Jason Segel: I must say, though, I understand her question, because you're looking just as good as you did twenty years ago. You're holding up fantastically.\n\nGQ: Amen. Botox?\n\n Kermit: No, no, I haven't had any work done, exactly. It's just good clean swamp living. It's one of those places where you can get away from it all.\n\n Jason Segel: The Hollywood types go to spas and get mud treatments, but that's just your lifestyle.\n\n GQ: What was filming a scene together like?\n\n Kermit: Jason is very tall and very funny, but not necessarily in that order.\n\n Jason Segel: I have to say, that was one thing we didn't anticipate. Kermit comes up to waist level to me at best so I did a lot of sitting in this movie.\n\n Kermit: That's true!\n\n Jason Segel: It worked out well because I much prefer sitting to walking or standing.\n\n Kermit: Maybe that's why you enjoyed making this movie so much!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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