Entertainment Weekly - October 20, 2017

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QUESTIONS

FOR

JENNIFER

HUDSON

What are your favorite

memories from

shooting?

Just the experience

of the behind-the-

scenes of it. Imagine

starting out on your

first film, and it’s this

huge. And then

being able to work

with people who I’ve

admired for so long

and working with

them every day,

being in the studio

with them every day.

It was like different

phases, different

classes that were

building the charac-

ter of Effie.

Did you keep anything

from set?

I did, because I’m a

shoplifter [laughs].

There was a coat that

Effie wore toward the

end that I got to keep.

More than 10 years

later, how do you look

back on the film?

When you’re creating

something that turns

out to be a classic,

you never know that

you’re creating it in

that moment. It’s

a huge part of my

history and my story.

A new book series from an EW

alum, which combines our

favorite felt friends and great lit-

erature, begins by reimagining

Gaston Leroux’s classic. The

mash-up is a fun, unexpectedly

gripping meld of the Muppets’

sensibility with an engrossing

tale of love and jealousy. (Miss

Piggy, obviously, takes center

stage as Christine.)

OCTOBER 20/27, 2017 EW.COM 9

MUPPETS MEET

THE CLASSICS:

THE PHANTOM

OF THE OPERA

by Gaston Leroux and Erik Forrest Jackson

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