Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep were glimpsed together Friday while filming the long-awaited sequel to their 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada.
Meryl, 76, captivated audiences of the first movie as the fearsome fashion editor Miranda Priestly, who was inspired by the now outgoing Vogue chief Anna Wintour.
The original novel was a roman à clef by the real Anna’s former assistant Lauren Weisberger, whose fictional stand-in Andrea ‘Andy’ Sachs was portrayed in the silver screen adaptation by Anne, 42.
News broke last July that a sequel was in the works, and it has since been confirmed that Anne and Meryl are both returning to their old roles.
Both Meryl and Anne were spotted separately in New York City this week, hard at working shooting the upcoming motion picture.
Now reunited, and the dynamic between their characters appears unchanged, with Andy dashing around in panic as Miranda drips with hauteur.
Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep have finally been glimpsed together while filming the long-awaited sequel to their 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada
Anne was seen filming a scene in which she runs desperately out of a building and into the street, holding a sheaf of papers up into the air.
The front page is splashed with the title: ‘The Revolution That Never Was,’ possibly the headline of an article written by Andy, who is a journalist.
Andy appeared in the scene to be trying to catch someone’s attention – presumably that of Miranda, her tyrannical onetime boss at Runway magazine.
At one point Andy gets winded and can be seen slumped over on the sidewalk, panting theatrically with her tongue hanging out.
The original film sees Andy plunge into the fashion industry and get swiftly made over from a mousy bookworm into a high-octane glamour-puss.
Her transformation in The Devil Wears Prada seems to have lasted into the sequel, as Anne was spotted in character on Friday in two fashion-forward outfits.
One consisted of a half-sleeved white top with a floor-length cape, teamed with matching trousers and a snowy pair of kitten heels.
Accessorized with a chunky chain necklace and a dark pair of sunglasses, the outfit was brought together by a bulging black handbag.
Meryl, 76, captivated audiences of the first movie as the fearsome fashion editor Miranda Priestly, who was inspired by the now outgoing Vogue chief Anna Wintour
News broke last July that a sequel was in the works, and it has since been confirmed that Anne and Meryl are both returning to their old roles
Now they are reunited at last, and the dynamic between their characters appears unchanged, with Andy dashing around in panic as Miranda drips with hauteur
Anne was seen filming a scene in which she runs desperately out of a building and into the street, holding a sheaf of papers up into the air
The front page is splashed with the title: ‘The Revolution That Never Was,’ possibly the headline of an article written by Andy, who is a journalist
At one point Andy gets winded and can be seen slumped over on the sidewalk, panting theatrically with her tongue hanging out
Anne’s other Andy Sachs outfit that day brought back memories of the character’s earliest incarnation as a studious university graduate.
She is more conventionally attired in jeans and a short walnut brown coat, though the residue of her life in fashion is still evident in her silk scarf and snakeskin boots.
Meanwhile Meryl was spotted in her unmistakable 2006 Miranda Priestly look, complete with the character’s swirl of ice-white hair.
She also had on the sunglasses Miranda constantly wears – an affectation lifted directly from Anna, who has confessed to using her shades as a form of ‘armor.’
Meryl’s costume was perfectly fitted to highlight her lithe frame, from the tucked-in white blouse to the midnight blue slacks to the slimming camel coat.
With a black leather folder tucked neatly under one of her arms, Meryl balanced expertly on a towering pair of scarlet stilettos that augmented her 5’6″ stature.
Other members of the original cast have also been spotted this week filming the sequel, including Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci.
Emily played Miranda’s chic, perpetually harried senior assistant Emily Charlton, who hisses that she is ‘one stomach flu away from my goal weight.’
Meanwhile Meryl was spotted in her unmistakable 2006 Miranda Priestly look, complete with the character’s swirl of ice-white hair
She also had on the sunglasses Miranda constantly wears – an affectation lifted directly from Anna, who has confessed to using her shades as a form of ‘armor’
With a black leather folder tucked neatly under one of her arms, Meryl balanced expertly on a towering pair of scarlet stilettos that augmented her 5’6″ stature
The original film sees Andy plunge into the fashion industry and get swiftly made over from a mousy bookworm into a high-octane glamour-puss
Her transformation in The Devil Wears Prada seems to have lasted into the sequel, as Anne was spotted in character on Friday in two fashion-forward outfits
One consisted of a half-sleeved white top with a floor-length cape, teamed with matching trousers and a snowy pair of kitten heels
Anne’s other Andy Sachs outfit that day brought back memories of the character’s earliest incarnation as a studious university graduate
She is more conventionally attired in jeans and a short walnut brown coat, though the residue of her life in fashion is still evident in her silk scarf and snakeskin boots
The character was rumored to be inspired by former Vogue writer Victoria ‘Plum’ Sykes, though Plum herself has strenuously denied as much.
Meanwhile Stanley was a scene-stealing presence in the first film as Runway magazine’s waspish art director Nigel Kipling, who announces Miranda’s arrival at the office by warning his colleagues: ‘All right, everyone, gird your loins!’
David Frankel and Aline Brosh McKenna, the director and writer respectively of the original movie, have been enlisted for the same jobs on the sequel.
New faces have also joined the team, from Kenneth Branagh as Miranda’s new husband to Australian heartthrob Patrick Brammall as Andy’s latest love interest.
Timothée Chalamet’s sister Pauline and The Office actor BJ Novak were also seen on Wednesday working on the movie in New York.
Although Lauren Weisberger wrote a sequel to her novel called Revenge Wears Prada, the reported plot of the second film is different from that of the second book.
In the upcoming movie, Miranda is said to be attempting to steer Runway through a new media landscape as her old world of print magazines slides into increasing irrelevance in the digital age, according to Variety.
She is bent on making a deal with a luxury ad firm, only to hit a snag in the shape of Emily, who is now an executive at the company.
David Frankel and Aline Brosh McKenna, the director and writer respectively of the original movie, have been enlisted for the same jobs on the sequel
New faces have also joined the team, from Kenneth Branagh as Miranda’s new husband to Australian heartthrob Patrick Brammall as Andy’s latest love interest
When the book The Devil Wears Prada was published in 2003, it spent six months on the New York Times bestseller list and set off a blizzard of gossip that Lauren was writing about her former boss, who had employed her for less than a year.
In public, the real Anna Wintour kept her cool, breezily remarking that she was ‘looking forward to reading the book’ to the New York Times.
However one of Anna’s subordinates claimed to her unauthorized biographer Jerry Oppenheimer that the Vogue capo was ‘spitting fire’ behind the scenes and ‘felt she had been used and abused by Weisberger.’
When the movie came out three years later, Anna leaned into the publicity and attended the New York City premiere wearing Prada.
Several years after the film’s release, Anna was asked in a CNN interview whether she regarded her ex-assistant’s novel as a ‘breach of trust.’
‘Well…,’ Anna replied with a weak laugh. ‘I think that she brought attention to fashion in a way that, you know, you can look at it in a negative way or a positive way. I choose to look at it in a positive way. In some ways, I think I should be grateful to her.’
