We're Going To Go Back There Someday

The people tied in with The Muppets often have very quiet, very private lives. We don’t know too much about their goings on outside of the franchise. That being said, Max Stein has just released this amazing interview pertaining to Richard Hunt. It’s an interview with one of his close friends. Here’s a snippet:

He had a lot of sides, and he was a natural actor. He grew up, as I understand it, feeling very much an outsider, and being mocked. I think like a lot of people he had, deep down, a lot of self-doubt that he fought his way through. A book he read all the time was Dune – the sci-fi book by Frank Herbert – and he was always big on that “fear is the mind-killer” thing. It’s part of the training that the good guys go through – “Fear is the mind-killer, fear is the mind-killer.” Richard really took that to heart. He just would throw himself into things.

I think he probably was a lot of things to a lot of people. I also think he, really like a lot of us, was finding himself, too. We put things out to different people. We also find ourselves reflected in other people in an interesting way.

This interview does touch on Richard’s involvement with drugs and coming out of the closet, so if you take offense to either of those topics then this interview may not be for you.

That being said, I was sobbing by the end of this. It is beautiful. Richard Hunt was an amazing individual and that he was taken so soon from us is still a tragedy. He was a wonderful man with an amazing heart.

Read. Please. Read.