The first Devil Wears Prada arrived in 2006 and quickly became a cult classic.
Now, Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway are gearing up for the second installment of the film. For Vogue Korea, the pair spoke with IVE’s Jang Wonyoung about iconic moments from the first film and The Devil Wears Prada 2.
Wonyoung asked when the first film was released. After Hathaway said 2006, she added, “Were you born?”
“I was only two at that point,” Wonyoung responds, laughing. “I was born in 2004.”
With Vogue Korea’s effects, Streep turns into that meme of the confused lady doing math (you know the one).
Even though the first Devil Wears Prada was a global success, it had a hard time getting off the ground. Earlier this month, Streep appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where she said they had to “scramble for our budget” because studios minimized the film as a “chick flick.”
“Twenty years ago, it was categorized as a ‘chick flick,’ and that designation has kind of not worn well,” she told Colbert. “After Barbie and Mamma Mia! and other films that completely catch the studio by surprise, that people want to see them, because they have girls—they have women at the center of the story. So we had to scramble for our budget.”
However, that wasn’t the case for The Devil Wears Prada 2. “This one, honey, they spent the money,” Streep said.
The first movie ultimately grossed over $326 million worldwide against a budget of $35–41 million.
The second film is set to release on May 1.
