Meanwhile, Meryl found Anna’s reputation to be the leading factor as to why she initially took on the role.
“It interested me that Anna Wintour was expected to be smilier, nicer, sweeter,” Meryl explained to IndieWire in 2016. “I thought, ‘Well, hell, what is her job? What does she have to do? What are her deadlines? What do we have very little time for, even though the dress and heels have to have the outward accoutrements of being appealing, womanly?’”
“Right in the beginning, reading the script,” she continued, “I thought, ‘Nobody’s seen this before and the girls are going to like this!’”
So, it’s no surprise that Meryl was all for reprising Miranda in the film’s sequel, out May 1. And much to fans’ delight, she’ll be joined by Anne, as well as fellow OG film stars Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt.
“It felt so special when we were making it,” Anne said during an April 15 appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “I kind of anticipated people were gonna love the movie. But what it’s been and what it’s become and this 20-year relationship that I get to have with the movie from the making of it.”
With just a few weeks to go until the sequel hits theaters, take a look back at The Devil Wears Prada and all of the secrets from the first film…
