As Miranda Priestley makes her iconic return after 20 years, Anna Wintour has shared her honest opinion about The Devil Wears Prada.
The outgoing Vogue editrix recently reflected on the 2006 movie based on the book by her former assistant Lauren Weisberger, for which she admitted she “went to the premiere wearing Prada, completely having no idea what the film was going to be about.”
“First of all it was Meryl Streep, which, fantastic,” she said on The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast. “And then I went to see the film, and I found it highly enjoyable. It was very funny.”
Wintour recalled that “the fashion industry were very sweetly concerned for me about the film, that it was going to paint me in some kind of difficult light.”
“In the end it had a lot of humor to it, it had a lot of wit, it had Meryl Streep. I mean, it was Emily Blunt,” added Wintour of the movie’s ensemble, led by Anne Hathaway. “They were all amazing. And in the end, I thought it was a fair shot.”
Directed by David Frankel, The Devil Wears Prada stars Hathaway as Andy, a recent college graduate desperate for a job in journalism when she is hired as the assistant to Streep’s diabolical Miranda, a position that proves detrimental to her personal life and sanity.
Last year, Disney tapped the original movie’s screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna to pen a sequel, which has been in production this summer in New York City. Original producer Wendy Finerman is back with Frankel returning to the director’s chair.
Meanwhile, Wintour announced in June that she’s stepping aside as Vogue‘s editor-in-chief after nearly 40 years, but she will stay on as chief content officer for Conde Nast, as well as global editorial director at Vogue.
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