The Devil Wears Prada

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly
• Anne Hathaway as Andrea “Andy” Sachs
• Emily Blunt as Emily Charlton
• Stanley Tucci as Nigel Kipling
• Simon Baker as Christian Thompson
• Adrian Grenier as Nate Cooper
• Gisele Bündchen as Serena
• Tracie Thoms as Lily
• Rich Sommer as Doug
• Daniel Sunjata as James Holt
• James Naughton as Stephen
• Colleen Dengel as Caroline Priestly
• Suzanne Dengel as Cassidy Priestly
• David Marshall Grant as Richard Sachs
• Tibor Feldman as Irv Ravitz
• Rebecca Mader as Jocelyn
• Alyssa Sutherland as Clacker
• Ines Rivero as Clacker at elevator
• Stéphanie Szostak as Jacqueline Follet
• David Callegati as Massimo
• Paul Keany as St. Regis Doorman
• Valentino Garavani
• Giancarlo Giammetti
• Carlos de Souza
• Bridget Hall
• Lauren Weisberger as the twins’ nanny
• Robert Verdi as a fashion journalist in Paris who interviews Miranda
• Heidi Klum
• Jen Taylor as Lou
• Nigel Barker

Storyline:

After graduating from university, Andy lands the dream job that “a million girls would kill for”: assistant to Miranda – the chief editor of Runway, the top-selling fashion magazine in the industry. It is a job set to fast-track her career in journalism, if she can survive a year working for Miranda. From here, Andy, with no sense of fashion at all, begins a fish-out-of-water drama as she is thrown into a lifestyle full of the fast-paced, three-inch-minimum-heel-height, diet coke and coffee substance abuse. Andy works really hard to deal with Miranda’s endless unimaginable demands. She even becomes trendy and classy. However, she gradually finds she is working 24/7 and soon her life with boyfriend Nate and best friend Lily is slipping away from her. Then, she realizes that she is losing what really matters. She does not want to lose herself no matter how many pairs of Monolos and Jimmy Choos she can score along the way.

About Movie:

The Devil Wears Prada is an American comedy-drama film directed by David Frankel and produced by Wendy Finerman. The screenplay, written by Aline Brosh McKenna, is based on the 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger. The film stars Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, and Emily Blunt.

In 2003, 20th Century Fox bought the rights to a film adaptation of Weisberger’s novel before it was completed for publication; the project was not greenlit until Streep was cast in the lead role.

Principal photography took place over 57 days in New York and Paris between October and December 2005. The film’s budget was initially $35 million and was to only include filming in New York. The limited budget caused problems with some locations—the crew could not get permission to shoot at the Museum of Modern Art or Bryant Park, which they also attribute to fear of Wintour.

After premiering at the LA Film Festival on June 22, 2006, The Devil Wears Prada was theatrically released in the United States on June 30. The film received positive reviews from critics, with Streep’s performance receiving widespread critical acclaim, thus earning her numerous awards and nominations, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. Hathaway and Blunt also drew favorable reviews and various nominations for their performances.

The film grossed over $326 million worldwide, against its $41 million budget, and was the 12th highest-grossing film worldwide in 2006.

Although the film is set in the fashion world, and references well-known establishments and people within that industry, most designers and other fashion notables avoided appearing as themselves for fear of displeasing US Vogue editor Anna Wintour, who is widely believed to have been the inspiration for Priestly. Wintour later overcame her initial skepticism, saying she liked the film and Streep’s performance in particular.

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