While some folks would have beloved to behave on Sesame Street as a toddler, Tyler James Williams recalled one occasion that almost scarred him as a 7-year-old child on set.
“I remember the moment of walking on set and seeing a man in Big Bird and it stopped me at first,” Williams, 31, shared through the Thursday, February 15, episode of SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show. “The head was off and he just had the legs on, and it definitely shocked me.”
At the time, Williams stated he wasn’t fairly positive react as he knew his muppet costars like Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster and Kermit weren’t really actual, however wasn’t used to seeing the actors who play them.
“They [usually] stay in character the entire time,” he remembered from his time on the present, which lasted from 2000 to 2005. “[For instance], if it’s Elmo, although you can see the hand up the puppet, the voice coming out of the man’s mouth will always be Elmo until the kids leave, so that’s what helps bridge the gap a little bit.”
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Williams famous that he appreciated the actors making an attempt to maintain the magic alive on set and be in character once they had been filming the long-lasting present.
“They’re very aware of how jarring [finding out they aren’t real] can be for a kid and they do a really good job of making it feel as natural as possible,” he defined.
Now that he’s older, Williams stated he appears to be like again on his time on Sesame Street and has a brand new appreciation for everybody working there, particularly the muppet performers.
“You also then get a really good understanding of how hard that job is to do,” he shared, earlier than gushing over every little thing the actor who performs Big Bird did.
“Big Bird, the man is in the suit, but the mouth is moving from his arm that is stretched up, so you somehow have to be able to stand and move one of the arms and flap it and, you know, walk and do all of this while your other hand is moving along with the mouth and I remember looking at that and going, ‘This is much harder than anybody thinks,’” he identified.
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He additionally praised the duo behind Elmo as properly, saying, “It takes two people to do Elmo and to move the hands and the mouth at the same time and they’re sliding along the floor together.”
Big Bird’s true id wasn’t the one secret Williams spilled. The Abbott Elementary star additionally revealed one other shocking behind-the-scenes truth in regards to the Sesame Street forged.
“I hate to break it to you, but Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird are the same person,” he stated, including that Mr. Snuffleupagus can be the identical actor.
“I will say this: Snuffleupagus is the head and then the butt,” he defined. “Those are two different people. That has to be the case, but yeah. The same actor does all three.”
