Overview
- Meryl Streep, who visited The Late Show on Wednesday, slipped into a custom cerulean J.Crew sweater and debuted an early clip as a wink to the 2006 film.
- She said the sequel opens with Andy Sachs losing her journalism job to the digital shift and finding her way back to Runway magazine.
- Streep recalled the original being brushed off as a “chick flick” with a tight budget and said the new film finally received serious spending.
- Ancestry.com reported that Streep and former Vogue editor Anna Wintour are sixth cousins who share fifth great-grandparents, adding a real-life twist to the long-noted Miranda–Wintour link.
- The film opens May 1 with Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci reuniting with director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna alongside new cast members.