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After 20 years, nan expected real-life inspiration down Emily Blunt‘s The Devil Wears Prada characteristic has travel forward.
Leslie Fremar, a erstwhile Vogue assistant, precocious claimed that nan characteristic of Emily Charlton was based connected her, recalling erstwhile she met nan character down nan characteristic successful nan 2006 movie.
When asked if she thinks Emily is based connected her, Fremar said Vogue‘s The Run-Through podcast, “I cognize I am. Yes. Correct.”
“I person met Emily Blunt,” she noted. “I was ever like, ‘If I meet Emily Blunt, what would I do?’ So 1 time I was getting a massage astatine nan Greenwich Hotel and she was really astatine nan spa herself, and I wanted to opportunity thing and I didn’t. So I fto that infinitesimal walk maine and past a customer of excavation invited maine complete for meal to her location and location was for illustration 7 group location and Emily was there.”
Fremar continued, “I was like, ‘This is truthful friendly and individual and we’re astatine a communal friend’s house.’ So I said to her, I was like, ‘I conscionable request to fto you cognize I’m Emily.’ She was not that interested, to beryllium honest. I was like, ‘I thought I was gonna get this for illustration immense reaction.’ No, it was like, ‘Oh, okay.'”
When nan Hollywood stylist worked astatine Vogue, she hired The Devil Wears Prada writer Lauren Weisberger to beryllium a inferior adjunct for Anna Wintour, wherever they worked together for 8 months. Weisberger wrote nan 2003 book based connected her clip astatine nan manner glossy.
Blunt reprises her domiciled successful The Devil Wears Prada 2, premiering Friday successful theaters, besides seeing nan fashionable returns of Meryl Streep arsenic Miranda Priestley, Anne Hathaway’s Andi and Stanley Tucci arsenic Nigel Kipling.
Tracie Thoms and Tibor Feldman will besides reprise their roles from nan original 2006 film, pinch Kenneth Branagh, Simone Ashley, Lucy Liu, Justin Theroux, B.J. Novak, Pauline Chalamet, Rachel Bloom, Patrick Brammall, Conrad Ricamora and Lady Gaga besides joining nan cast.
