As Miranda Priestley and Andie Sachs face off for round two 20 years later, one new face is soaking in the moment.
Following Pauline Chalamet‘s casting in The Devil Wears Prada 2, the actress noted “can’t even talk about it completely yet” while revealing her reaction to finding out she was cast in the sequel, alongside returning stars Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway.
“I blacked out. So I don’t remember,” Chalamet told People. “I kind of didn’t believe it until I was given dates. I kind of went, ‘Oh, you pranked me, that’s not really going to happen.’ And then I was given the blueprint for the looks.”
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.
“It’s a perfect movie. And I really mean that, it is a perfect movie. It’s so fun,” said Chalamet, noting that she’s “100 percent an Andie. I can’t even pretend I’m not. With dreams of being a Miranda.”
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.
The sequel sees the returns of Streep, Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci Tracie Thoms and Tibor Feldman, joined by newcomers Kenneth Branagh, Simone Ashley, Lucy Liu, Justin Theroux, B.J. Novak, Rachel Bloom, Patrick Brammall and Chalamet.
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