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Anna Wintour whitethorn not person an charismatic cameo successful “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” but she still managed to time off her people connected nan production.
The Condé Nast world main contented officer, 76, paid a sojourn to nan sequel’s Milan set, head David Frankel and screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna told Amy Odell successful an question and reply for her “Back Row” podcast.
Frankel did seizure Wintour connected camera during nan visit, shooting what he described arsenic a “gag take” that will look arsenic a prize characteristic erstwhile nan movie lands connected streaming.
It won’t beryllium a polished performance, though — Wintour sewage up of her cue, truthful nan changeable is partially retired of focus, and Frankel wasn’t astir to push his luck. “I can’t inquire Anna to do return two,” he said.
As for why Wintour won’t look connected nan large screen? “That felt excessively meta to america to put her successful nan movie,” Frankel told Back Row.
While she whitethorn not make her acting debut successful nan sequel to nan 2006 movie that was inspired by her, Wintour’s fingerprints tin beryllium seen connected nan film. While rolling successful nan fictional Dior offices wherever Emily Blunt’s characteristic works, Wintour watched from nan show and couldn’t thief playing editor.
She zeroed successful connected nan flowers successful nan framework — and wished location were excessively many, and they were excessively pink. The location of Dior, she informed nan crew, would only ever person achromatic flowers.
“I came moving retired and I was like, ‘Dude, termination nan flowers,'” Brosh McKenna told Back Row. The pinkish blooms were promptly replaced pinch a azygous achromatic vase.
Meta aliases not, Wintour has fully leaned into her “devil” reputation successful nan run-up to nan sequel.
She and Anne Hathaway had nan Dolby Theatre cracking up astatine nan 2026 Oscars successful March erstwhile they presented nan grant fro Best Costume Design pinch a motion to nan film, and Wintour precocious posed alongside Meryl Streep — who plays her thinly cloaked onscreen counterpart, Miranda Priestly — for nan cover of Vogue.
The sequel, which premiered Monday successful New York, opens successful theaters May 1, conscionable 3 days earlier Wintour hosts nan Met Gala. Three of her former assistants besides precocious compared their real-life acquisition to nan franchise connected Vogue’s “The Run-Through” podcast — and their accounts propose nan prop section sewage disconnected easy.
