![]() ![]() Anna Wintour turned up at The Devil Wears Prada premiere … in Prada.Īnna Wintour attends at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in 2007 Meryl Streep poses at The Devil Wears Prada screening at the Deauville Festival Of American Film in Deauville, France. The character’s ability to command attention in a softly-spoken manner was adopted from Streep’s The Bridges of Madison County co-star, as she explained to Variety in 2016: “He never, ever, ever raises his voice and everyone has to lean in to listen, and he is automatically the most powerful person in the room." 3. But the Oscar favorite did, in fact, look to Dirty Harry himself, Clint Eastwood, for inspiration while playing Miranda. Meryl Streep’s super-stylish editor-in-chief wouldn’t appear to have much in common with a grizzled octogenarian whose biggest contribution to fashion is the woolly poncho. Meryl Streep took inspiration from an unlikely source for Miranda Priestly. “I remember we aggressively went in and scooped it up.” 2. “I thought Miranda Priestly was one of the greatest villains ever,” Hacken told Variety on the film’s 10th anniversary. ![]() Indeed, then-executive vice president Carla Hacken was so impressed with the manuscript containing just the first 100 pages that she instantly greenlit a big screen adaptation. ![]() The studio bought the rights to its source material, Lauren Weisberger’s novel of the same name, in 2003 before it had even been completed. It’s fair to say that executives at 20th Century Fox were pretty confident in The Devil Wears Prada’s concept. ![]()
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