The director explains role Henson's wife played in the creation of the Muppets.
Award-winning director Ron Howard discusses his Disney+ documentary "Jim Henson: Idea Man," delving into the story of one of the world's most renowned creators.
There are real lessons about the journey that I thought were interesting, creatively, because he was always inventing, always exploring, and all of those experiments that he was messing around with, making home movies with his kids, that all led to the stuff that we all remember so well, and knew nothing about his wife, Jane, and how significant she was.ABC NEWS LIVE: And most people didn't until this documentary. You won't really know the role and significance that that she played.
ABC NEWS LIVE: There were a lot of surprises for me. I'm, for example, learning right off the bat that he never even aspired to be a puppeteer. He just wanted to get into TV, didn't grow up with puppets. Were there other things that surprised you along the way? He used, you know, he, used satire, whether it was on a kid's level or a little older and more mature to make us recognize, you know, those foibles and that funny stuff about ourselves, that it's that it's, you know, it's important to be reminded of just a great creative genius.
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