Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026)
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02 May 2026, 7:46 am
In His Girl Friday (1940), newspaper man Walter Burns (played with impeccable charm by Cary Grant) refuses to part with his star reporter Hildy Johnson (played by Rosalind Russell) who also happens to be his ex wife, putting all sorts of obstacles in her way as she tries to get on the train to Albany to marry her brand new boyfriend, an insurance salesman. It is hilarious, full of punchlines, and near imprisonments. It also has, at various times, Burns pulling nutty stunts, including getting Hildy’s future mother in law abducted and getting an aeroplane to write: “Hildy, don’t be hasty. Remember my dimple. Walter,” which delayed their divorce by 20 minutes while the judge went out and watched it. It was based on the play The Front Page and was released 86 years ago.
Cut to 2026 and the boss from hell is getting her comeuppance in the most undignified way possible. What seemed funny in 2006 would be considered toxic now, from her flinging her coat and handbag at her assistant to telling her to pick up her drycleaning. There’s a scene in The Devil Wears Prada 2 where her former assistant Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) sees Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) hang up her coat herself in her room and can’t believe it. Miranda’s cutting remarks too are deemed far too rude for the new working environment, with her new assistant Amari (Simone Ashley) forever trying to correct her when she goes off on rants about models looking like “starving goats at a methadone clinic in New York”, or about using plus size models o
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