Meryl Streep says Anne Hathaway requested no “so skeletal” models in The Devil Wears Prada 2.
Anne Hathaway as Andrea ‘Andy’ Sachs in The Devil Wears Prada
The cast got to attend fashion shows during Milan Fashion Week when they shot the sequel to the 2006 comedy film – which followed aspiring journalist Andrea “Andy” Sachs (Hathaway) work as an assistant for Miranda Priestly (Streep), the intensely fierce Runway Magazine editor.
Streep, 76, recalled in Harper’s Bazaar magazine’s April 2026 The Now Issue: “[I was] struck by how not only beautiful and young – everyone seems young to me – but alarmingly thin the models were … I thought that all had been addressed years ago. Annie clocked it too.
“And she 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.”
Streep and Hathaway’s co-stars, including Stanley Tucci (Nigel Kipling) and Emily Blunt (Emily Charlton), were shooting scenes for The Devil Wears Prada 2 in New York last summer.
And the buzz made Streep feel “unnerved”
She said: “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.
“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!
“Annie kept her cool, but I was unnerved.”
When filming one scene for the sequel – which comes out on May 1 – Hathaway, 43, tumbled down some steps after her heel broke.
She recalled: “I was aware that I was falling, I was aware that I was being photographed, and I was also aware that, like, so many people on the crew, their hearts had just jumped up into their throat, so I needed to get up quickly to make sure they knew I was OK.”
Blunt, 43, said the fan excitement made it tricky “at times” to film The Devil Wears Prada 2 – which sees near-retiree Miranda competing with Emily Charlton, her former assistant and now executive, over advertising revenue.
She is quoted by the new issue of Best magazine as saying: “I have never experienced anything like it. We had paparazzi taking pictures. There were fans there every day.
“It was difficult at times because, of course, you want to keep everything under wraps. But yeah, the level of interest has been just incredible.”