Muppets Most Wanted Premiere at the El Capitan Theater

Disclosure: Disney provided me an all expense paid trip to promote the Muppets Most Wanted premiere. All experiences and opinions are my own. Yours may differ.

The red carpet premiere of Muppets Most Wanted at the El Capitan Theater happened in the middle of my trip to Los Angeles. Since I have been to a premiere before I knew a little bit of what to expect, but every time you hit the red carpet it is amazing! The excitement is extreme. There are tons of paparrazi on one side of the fence, celebs galore in the middle of the fence, the bloggers and other guests walking down the edge of the carpet and then fans surrounding everywhere else. It is easy to be distracted and not really realize what is happening, so the trick is to stay in the moment!

 

We walked from the Hilton Garden Inn over to Hollywood Blvd. by way of the Oscar staircase. We paused to take a group photo and individual pictures and to kill a little time so we could be fashionably late.

Once we got our badges that let us onto the red carpet, it was time to absorb the amazingness and take a lot of photos!!

As I was walking the red carpet I spotted a few celebs and snapped a few photos!! Check out who I spotted!

 

 

At the end of the red carpet near the El Capitan Theater was a large vault where Constantine, Miss Piggy and Kermit were being interviewed with different celebrities. When I walked by they were being interview with Terry Crews.

 After the premiere we were invited to attend the after party. I was so excited as I had never been to an after party before! It was exciting to see all of the movie memoribilia as well as the stars of the movie and other shows. It was so much fun to mingle with everyone.

Above Tina Fey and Ricky Gervais were very nice and took tons of photos with fans. Below is the solitary confinement box Josh Groban was locked in in the movie.

 

Above is the Interpol car in the film. Below is the giant badge belonging to  Sam the Eagle.

The highlight of the night for me was meeting Josh Groban. I LOVE him so much. His character in the film is so funny! I am not usually one to go and talk to celebrities, I like to give people their space, but I know I would regret it if I didn’t ask him to take a picture with me. Even though he was hungry and making his way to the food he was so nice to take a picture with me and talk for a moment.

So what did we talk about?

I first asked him if he was really in the box. He said that yes, he was in the box. (I got in the box too, pictured above)

I asked him if he grew up watching the Muppets.  He said that he did! He said when he was about 5 he remembers watching the Muppets on TV and really enjoying them.

I asked him if doing the movie with the Muppets and seeing how they work killed the magic for him. He replied that working with the Muppets didn’t kill the magic. If anything it increased it because he has a great appreciation for all that goes into creating the movies and making the Muppets so real for all of us.

It was such a pleasure to spend about 5 minutes with Josh Groban and connect with him. The whole evening was amazing. I’m glad I have pictures to prove that it happened because it seems like the dream. This was a once in a lifetime experience that I won’t forget and don’t want to ever forget.

My only regret of the evening? Not eating any of the food. It smelled amazing but the tables were usually all taken throughout the night and so I just didn’t ever stop to grab food and stand around to eat it. There was so much other stuff going on that I didn’t want to miss, so I ended up missing out on food, but that’s ok. Totally worth it, as were the blisters on my toes for wearing some cute heels.

Muppets Most Wanted comes to a theater near you on March 21.