Now that she’s named her successor as Vogue’s top editor, Anna Wintour appears a bit extra relaxed.
At the very least, she’s extra prepared to speak about the hit 2006 movie “The Devil Wears Prada.”
Based on the 2003 bestselling novel of the identical title by Lauren Weisberger, who had beforehand labored as a private assistant to Wintour at Vogue, the film tells the story of an aspiring author (Anne Hathaway) who finds a job at a high style journal below the route of a tough-as-nails editor.
Meryl Streep performed Miranda Priestly, who’s assumed to be primarily based on Wintour. The character turned shorthand for difficult-to-please bosses regardless of the trade, and Streep earned one among her many Oscar nominations for her efficiency.
In the previous, Wintour has appeared reticent to debate all of it. During a latest look on “The New Yorker Radio Hour” podcast, nevertheless, the style powerhouse truly joked to the host David Remnick that she “went to the premiere wearing Prada, completely having no idea what the film was going to be about.”
“First of all it was Meryl Streep, which, fantastic,” Wintour mentioned. “And then I went to see the film, and I found it highly enjoyable. It was very funny.”
And whereas she informed Remnick, who’s an editor at The New Yorker, that “the fashion industry were very sweetly concerned for me about the film, that it was going to paint me in some kind of difficult light.”
Wintour feels like she each discovered it pleasant and has made peace with it.
“In the end it had a lot of humor to it, it had a lot of wit, it had Meryl Streep,” Wintour mentioned. “I mean, it was Emily Blunt [who played senior assistant Emily Charlton in the film]. They were all amazing. And in the end, I thought it was a fair shot.”
In 2009, she told David Letterman that the movie was “fiction” and identified that “as my publisher says in the movie, I’m not always warm and cuddly.”
“What I liked about the movie is that it really showed all the hard work that goes into the making of the magazine,” she allowed on the time.
A sequel to “The Devil Wears Prada” started filming in June. The new movie will welcome again Streep, together with Hathaway, Blunt and Stanley Tucci.