Overview
- Streep, in a Harper's Bazaar cover story published Wednesday, said Anne Hathaway asked producers to ensure models in The Devil Wears Prada 2 would not look “so skeletal” after both actors saw “alarmingly thin” runway walkers.
- The cast attended real shows at Milan Fashion Week, access made possible by fashion houses that embraced the sequel, a sharp contrast with the first film when brands were hesitant to help.
- Streep said filming in New York drew buses of fans and swarms of paparazzi that forced police barriers, and Hathaway later recalled getting up fast after a staircase fall and telling director David Frankel, “Oh no. I’m news.”
- The sequel reunites Hathaway, Streep, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci for a May 1 theatrical release, and Frankel said the story tracks the characters 20 years later with Andy Sachs in journalism and themes about life in one’s 40s.
- Coverage ranged from industry context in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter to tabloid focus on the on-set frenzy in Page Six and TMZ, while Fast Company tied the casting choice to a wider debate over thinness standards in fashion and entertainment.