Kermit the Frog holds a coin given to him at an event for children of military families in Washington in 2014. At least that’s how Cheryl Henson, the daughter of Kermit’s creator Jim Henson, saw it. Whitmire, who took over the role when Jim Henson died in 1990, “performed Kermit as a bitter, angry, depressed victim,” she said. [The voice of Kermit the Frog has been fired. He’s ‘devastated.’]“Steve’s performance of Kermit has strayed far away from my father’s good hearted, compassionate leader of the Muppets,” Henson wrote.

Source: Washington Post July 19, 2017 10:50 UTC