Meryl Streep was seen for the first time on the set of her upcoming sequel to her fan favorite 2006 blockbuster The Devil Wears Prada.
She captivated audiences of the first movie as the fearsome fashion editor Miranda Priestly, who was inspired by the now outgoing Vogue chief Anna Wintour.
The original novel was a roman à clef by the real Anna’s former assistant Lauren Weisberger, whose fictional stand-in Andrea ‘Andy’ Sachs was portrayed in the silver screen adaptation by Anne Hathaway.
News broke last July that a sequel was in the works, and it has since been confirmed that Anne and Meryl are both returning to their old roles.
Now Meryl, 76, has been spotted shooting the upcoming picture in New York City, unmistakably in character as the tyrannical boss of Runway magazine.
Fans leapt to social media to share their astonished reactions at how little she has aged since the original movie came out nearly 20 years ago.
Meryl Streep was seen for the first time on the set of her upcoming sequel to her fan favorite 2006 blockbuster The Devil Wears Prada
She captivated audiences as the fearsome fashion editor Miranda Priestly in the first movie, in which she is pictured with Anne Hathaway (left) and Emily Blunt (right)
One gushed that ‘she hasn’t aged a day,’ as another wrote: ‘between 2005 and now she has aged a week,’ and a third exclaimed: ‘She looks just as fabulous!!!’
Sharing side-by-side images of Meryl in the original movie and on the set of the new film this week, a flabbergasted X user marveled: ‘this is crazy.’
Read More
Emily Blunt cuts a casual figure in a T-shirt and jeans as she departs the set of The Devil Wears Prada 2 in NYC
Her admirers erupted with praise, rhapsodizing: ‘Iconic,’ ‘OH MY GOD,’ ‘miranda YOU ARE BACK,’ ‘She looks amazing,’ and: ‘Dios!!!!!! Queen is back.’
When Meryl surfaced on the set of the new film in Midtown Manhattan, her 2006 Miranda Priestly look was back with a vengeance, including the trademark swirl of ice-white hair.
She also had on the sunglasses Miranda constantly wears – an affectation lifted directly from Anna, who has confessed to using her shades as a form of ‘armor.’
Meryl’s costume was perfectly fitted to highlight her lithe frame, from her nut-brown leather pencil skirt to her plunging lavender blouse.
Wearing a slimming camel-toned coat, she stalked down 45th St on a set of burnt-orange heels that augmented her 5’6″ stature.
Meryl’s latest sighting comes just two days after Anne was spotted shooting the new film, in the first-look sighting of Andy Sachs’ latest incarnation.
Now Meryl, 76, has been spotted shooting the upcoming picture in New York City , unmistakably as the tyrannical boss of Runway magazine
Fans leapt to social media to share their astonished reactions at how little she has aged since the original movie came out nearly 20 years ago
When Meryl surfaced on the set of the new film in Midtown Manhattan, her 2006 Miranda Priestly look was in full evidence, including her swirl of snow white hair
She also had on the sunglasses Miranda constantly wears – an affectation borrowed from Anna Wintour, who has admitted she wears shades as a form of ‘armor’
Wearing a slimming camel-toned coat, Meryl stalked down 45th Street on a set of burnt-orange heels that augmented her 5’6″ stature
One fan gushed that ‘she hasn’t aged a day,’ as another wrote: ‘between 2005 and now she has aged a week,’ and a third exclaimed: ‘She looks just as fabulous!!!’
In the upcoming film, Miranda is though to be attempting to steer Runway through a new media landscape; Meryl is pictured playing the role in the original film
The original film sees Andy plunge into the fashion industry and get swiftly made over from a mousy bookworm into a high-octane glamour-puss.
Her transformation in The Devil Wears Prada seems to have lasted into the sequel, as Anne was spotted in character this week wearing a sleeveless pinstriped trouser suit that would scarcely look out of place on a habituée of the Chanel front row.
Along with Anne and Meryl, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci have confirmed that they are reprising their roles from the original movie.
Emily played Miranda’s chic, perpetually harried senior assistant Emily Charlton, who hisses that she is ‘one stomach flu away from my goal weight.’
The character was rumored to be inspired by former Vogue writer Victoria ‘Plum’ Sykes, though Plum herself has strenuously denied as much.
Meanwhile Stanley was a scene-stealing presence in the first film as Runway magazine’s waspish art director Nigel Kipling, who announces Miranda’s arrival at the office by warning his colleagues: ‘All right, everyone, gird your loins!’
David Frankel and Aline Brosh McKenna, the director and writer respectively of the original movie, have been enlisted for the same jobs on the sequel.
New faces have also joined the team, from Kenneth Branagh as Miranda’s new husband to n heartthrob Patrick Brammall as Andy’s latest love interest.
Meryl’s latest sighting comes just two days after Anne was spotted shooting the new film, in the first-look sighting of Andy Sachs’ latest incarnation
Anna Wintour, an avid tennis fan, is pictured at Wimbledon earlier this month
Although Lauren Weisberger wrote a sequel to her novel called Revenge Wears Prada, the reported plot of the second film is different from that of the second book.
In the upcoming movie, Miranda is said to be attempting to steer Runway through a new media landscape as her old world of print magazines slides into increasing irrelevance in the digital age, according to Variety.
She is bent on making a deal with a luxury ad firm, only to hit a snag in the shape of Emily, who is now an executive at the company.
When the book The Devil Wears Prada was published in 2003, it spent six months on the New York Times bestseller list and set off a blizzard of gossip that Lauren was writing about her former boss, who had employed her for less than a year.
In public, the real Anna Wintour kept her cool, breezily remarking that she was ‘looking forward to reading the book’ to the New York Times.
Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci are reprising their respective roles as Andrea ‘Andy’ Sachs and Nigel Kipling, which they are pictured playing in the first film
However one of Anna’s subordinates claimed to her unauthorized biographer Jerry Oppenheimer that the Vogue capo was ‘spitting fire’ behind the scenes and ‘felt she had been used and abused by Weisberger.’
When the movie came out three years later, Anna leaned into the publicity and attended the New York City premiere wearing Prada.
Several years after the film’s release, Anna was asked in a CNN interview whether she regarded her ex-assistant’s novel as a ‘breach of trust.’
‘Well…,’ Anna replied with a weak laugh. ‘I think that she brought attention to fashion in a way that, you know, you can look at it in a negative way or a positive way. I choose to look at it in a positive way. In some ways, I think I should be grateful to her.’