Meryl Streep recently appeared with her Devil Wears Prada 2 costars in conversation with Andy Cohen on SiriusXM’s Front Row
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The actress did not know Anna Wintour, believed to be the inspiration for her character Miranda Priestly, back in 2006 when the original film was made
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After getting to know the fashion editor in the 20 years since, Streep recalled telling Wintour that the sequel is “going to be good”
Meryl StreepandAnna Wintourhave become closer in the 20 years sinceThe Devil Wears Prada.
“I didn't know her at all because of my dissociation from fashion for the first movie,” Streep, 76, recalled onSiriusXM’sAndy Cohen-hostedFront Row. Joining the Oscar winner were herThe Devil Wears Prada 2costarsAnne Hathaway,Emily BluntandStanley Tucciahead of the sequel’s May 1 release.
Back in 2006, Streep “didn’t want to” get to know Wintour, 76, when creating the chic Miranda Priestly, adapted for the screen from Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novelThe Devil Wears Prada. It is widely believed the character is based on Wintour; like the protagonist, Weisberger had once worked as a personal assistant to theformerVogueeditor.
“I just wanted to create my own Miranda,” Streep told Cohen, 57. “I wanted to have it be my own thing, and, ‘Who I would be if I were in charge?’”
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But “after I got to know her over the last 20 years,” theMamma Mia!star continued, Wintour “did call me up and say, ‘What's this going to be like?’” in reference to the long-awaited sequel.
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Streep recalled telling Wintour, “‘I think it's going to be good. You're not going to be worried.’ And I still feel that way.”
In their joint cover ofVogue's May 2026 issue, Streep and Wintour talked toGreta Gerwigabout the differences betweenThe Devil Wears Pradaand its follow-up. Wintour said she indeed got in touch with the actress upon hearing about the sequel, saying, “I knew she would tell me if it was going to be all right.”
After Streep read the script and called her back to reassure her, Wintour recalled, she felt at ease. “She told me very little about what happens in the film, but I trusted her implicitly."
Amid thepress tourforThe Devil Wears Prada 2, a fun fact emerged about Streep and Wintour: the women aredistantly related, per Ancestry.com.
The Devil Wears Prada 2(in theaters May 1), again from director David Frankel and screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, stars Streep, Hathaway, Blunt, Tucci,Kenneth Branagh,Lucy Liu,Justin Theroux,B.J. Novak,Pauline Chalamet,Patrick Brammall, Caleb Hearon,Helen J. ShenandConrad Ricamora.
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