What ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Taught Its Stars About Being a Boss

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What ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Taught Its Stars About Being a Boss

Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci and the director David Frankel on “The Devil Wears Prada,” the sequel and who’s mean in real life.

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What ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ Taught Its Stars About Being a Boss

Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci and the director David Frankel on “The Devil Wears Prada,” the sequel and who’s mean in real life.

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Melena Ryzik

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Thea Traff

April 29, 2026

Few movies can both generate a meme and put a color on the map — but “The Devil Wears Prada” managed it, and in

the same scene.

(Cerulean knitwear was never the same.) A blockbuster in 2006, the movie has only grown more beloved, and more quotable, since.

Two decades after Meryl Streep, as the unsparing fashion editor Miranda Priestly, made a meal of the phrase “That’s all,” comes the sequel, with the same director, David Frankel, and stars: Anne Hathaway as Andy, the idealistic former assistant with serious journalism chops who’s back at Miranda’s magazine, Runway; Emily Blunt as the barbed former underling Emily, now a design executive; and Stanley Tucci as Miranda’s loyal right-hand man, Nigel.

The characters endured, but they are all roiled by today’s economics, with tech overlords, corporate consolidations and a crumbling media landscape. Hathaway said, “Things that used to feel so safe now feel so unstable” — onscreen and off. “That was the heart string that just kept coming up for me.”

For the cast, reuniting was a rare pleasure. “Their whole professional lives blossomed in the interim,” Streep said admiringly of Hathaway and Blunt. “And Stanley and I are close friends now. All that time, can’t get rid of him.” (And Blunt and Tucci are family: In 2012, he married her older sister.)

Stuffed with cameos and comic scene-stealers,

“The Devil Wears Prada 2,”

in theaters on May 1, is hotly anticipated. In a recent round-table interview and separate conversations at the Four Seasons New York Downtown, the director and cast reflected on filming 20 years apart, being ambitious, and whether Streep is mean in real life. There was a lot of laughter.

These are edited excerpts from the conversations.

Top, from left, the director David Frankel, Emily Blunt and Meryl Streep along with Stanley Tucci and Anne Hathaway, bottom, reunited for the new film.

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