Caroll Spinney, Oscar's regular performer, once recalled the Grouch's other half: "The first time he [Oscar] got to move around was when one of the writers had the idea of cutting the bottom of the can & making legs out of Oscar's green fur. A little person would be needed to get in this costume, & the man for the job was Hervé Villechaize, who I got to know. Later Hervé became famous for the role of Tattoo on Fantasy Island, but I had actually 1st seen him in a very strange play at Manhattan's La Mama Theater, in which he was riding around on a tall, skinny guy who was making chicken sounds. Hervé was an intellectual, very thoughtful, & quite an artist."