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Meryl Streep wasn’t channeling Anna Wintour successful her iconic “Devil Wears Prada” domiciled — but alternatively Mike Nichols and Clint Eastwood.
The actress, 76, shared her astonishment inspiration for her Miranda Priestly character pinch “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” viewers Thursday.
The Golden Globe victor defined her “calm” characteristic arsenic what would hap “if [those actors] had a baby.”
Stephen Colbert quipped, “I’d watch that movie.”
She explained her inspiration came from their clip moving together connected “The Bridges of Madison County,” explaining, “Clint would ne'er raise his voice.
“He would nonstop and group had to thin guardant to perceive what he was saying,” she noted, adding that this near group “on nan separator of their seats” and nan “balls of their feet.”
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The Oscar victor has ne'er shared her thought process pinch Eastwood, 95, but did show Nichols, 83, that Priestly embodied his “command connected set” — which “thrilled” nan precocious comedian, who died successful 2014.
“Mike would do it benignant of pinch a sly humor,” she noted. “Miranda, she knows what she’s saying is benignant of snide, but she knows it’s benignant of funny too.
“That small measurement of doing this, group return arsenic mean, but it’s funny,” nan Tony nominee continued. “I deliberation it’s funny.”
Streep first played Priestly successful 2006’s “Devil Wears Prada,” alongside Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci and Adrian Grenier.
She reprises nan role successful nan deed film’s sequel, retired May 1.
The first trailer for “The Devil Wears Prada 2” dropped successful November 2025.
Three months later, Streep joked to People that she should “get a Medal of Freedom” for spending 16 weeks wearing heels for nan role.
She described nan character’s wardrobe successful nan February question and reply arsenic her aforesaid look from earlier — “but adapted … pinch time.”
While galore of nan cast members returned for nan upcoming movie, Adrian Grenier — who played Hathaway’s characteristic Andrea Sachs’ boyfriend, Nate, successful nan original — was not asked back.
“Obviously, it was a disappointment,” he told Page Six past month. “There’s immoderate backlash pinch Nate, nan character, truthful that mightiness person thing to do pinch it.”
