Outgoing Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour has kept quiet about her feelings on 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada—until now. Speaking to New Yorker editor David Remnick during a recent episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast, Wintour reflected on the comparisons between her and Meryl Streep‘s Miranda Priestley.
Remnick asked Wintour if she was hurt by the portrayal. “Well, I went to the premiere, wearing Prada, completely having no idea what the film was going to be about,” Wintour responded. “And I think 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.”
“Cartoonish?” Remnick asked. “Yes, a caricature,” Wintour agreed. “But, first of all, it was Meryl Streep, which, fantastic. And then I went to see the film and I found it highly enjoyable and very funny. Miuccia [Prada] and I talk about it a lot, and I say to her, ‘Well it was really good for you.’ And you can imagine what she says back.”
She added, “Listen, it had a lot of humor to it. It had a lot of wit. It had Meryl Streep. I mean, it was Emily Blunt. I mean, they were all amazing. In the end, I thought it was a fair shot.”
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Wintour has been asked for her opinion on the film, which also starred Anne Hathaway, over the years. Last year, she told the BBC that it is “for the audience and for the people I work with to decide if there are any similarities between me and Miranda Priestly.”
Streep, Hathaway, Blunt, and Stanley Tucci are all returning for a long-awaited sequel to The Devil Wears Prada, which was spotted filming all over New York this summer. The film is set to hit theaters in May 2026.
