Anne Hathaway set the tone for The Devil Wears Prada 2 by refusing to cast overly thin models in the film, her costar Meryl Streep shared in a candid new interview.
Streep, 76, admitted to being completely “struck by how not only beautiful and young” as well as “alarmingly thin the models were” when the cast attended real-life runway shows during Milan Fashion Week in 2025, she told Harper’s Bazaar in an article profiling Hathaway, 43, published on Wednesday, March 25.
“I thought that all had been addressed years ago. Annie clocked it too,” Streep added.
The actress, who reprises her role as Miranda Priestly (Runway magazine’s now-struggling editor-in-chief) alongside Hathaway’s Andy Sachs in the upcoming sequel, said that her costar wanted a more realistic beauty standard portrayed in the sequel and took action to ensure that would happen.
Stanley Tucci and Anne Hathaway. Macall Polay/20th Century Studios
“[Hathaway] made a beeline to the producers about it, securing promises that the models in the show that we were putting together for our film would not be so skeletal! She’s a stand-up girl,” raved Streep.
It’s been two decades since fashion-loving fans got to see the original film in theaters back in June 2006. This time, Andy is a features editor at Runway after moving up the ladder from her junior personal assistant role.
Fans of The Devil Wears Prada have long been hoping for a sequel, but the cast is torn about revisiting the 2006 film. Anne Hathaway starred as Andy, an aspiring journalist who lands a coveted job as the personal assistant to Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), the powerful editor of a fashion magazine called Runway (think: […]
“Even though we were aware of the impact of the first film two decades ago, I think none of us were prepared for the ambush of both goodwill and avid attention that engulfed us,” Streep shared about the frenzy that followed. “We needed police barriers and crowd control.”
“Buses of fans turned up, and paparazzi swarmed and in one case kept jumping in front of the camera and the shot and got in a kerfuffle with crew!” added Streep while talking about shooting the sequel. “Annie kept her cool, but I was unnerved.”
As for what fans can expect to see in the second film, “The characters are obviously 20 years along in their careers and at very different places, and the world of media is in a very different place,” the movie’s director, David Frankel, shared. “Andy has had a career in journalism that mirrors a lot of people’s experiences in journalism these days.”
Is the sequel to The Devil Wears Prada the most anticipated film of 2026? Well, why wouldn’t it be? It’s one of the most iconic films of 21st-century pop culture. It catapulted Emily Blunt into the mainstream, gave Anne Hathaway her then-biggest commercial success and forever cemented Meryl Streep’s iconic status as Miranda Priestly. And, of […]
Outside of her role as Andy, Hathaway said that she’s embraced this next chapter of her own life as a mom of two.
“I think that very often, conversations about aging presume that the first part of life is the happiest and the most fulfilling, and I don’t necessarily think that’s true,” the star, who shares sons Jonathan, 10, and Jack, 6, with her husband Adam Shulman, said. She added, “I wasn’t expecting to find another gear at 40.”
