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Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt Tell All – Variety. The moment Meryl Streep read the script for “The Devil Wears Prada,” she knew it would be—in her words—“Yuge.” But despite a truckload of awards and a reputation as the greatest actress on the planet, Streep had always been reluctant to negotiate for more pay. Maybe it was the character Miranda Priestly, a fashion magazine editor so powerful she could terrify underlings without even raising her voice, that pushed her to do it. But the Oscar- winning actress felt emboldened. The offer was to my mind slightly, if not insulting, not perhaps reflective of my actual value to the project,” Streep tells Variety. There was my ‘goodbye moment,’ and then they doubled the offer.

I was 5. 5, and I had just learned, at a very late date, how to deal on my own behalf.”“The Devil Wears Prada” showed Hollywood that it was never wise to underestimate a strong woman’s worth. The movie based on Lauren Weisberger’s best- selling novel was originally meant as light counter- programming when it opened on June 3. Superman Returns.” But Miranda managed to clobber the Man of Steel in the zeitgeist wars. Prada” went on to gross $3. Fox (a staggering amount for a project that only cost $4. Working Girl” for a generation of millennial women—and some men—who could relate to the idea of losing your identity to your job.

Unlike the ladies on “Sex and the City” who lounged at lunches and cocktails all day long, the film’s scrappy heroine Andy Sachs couldn’t even take her dad to dinner without her phone buzzing non- stop. All of a sudden there were “Prada” copycats everywhere. The movie pre- dated the global hysteria over New York Fashion Week; the cutthroat magazine world depicted in ABC’s “Ugly Betty; ” and the 2. The September Issue,” which softened the image of “Prada” inspiration, Vogue editor Anna Wintour.

And with each year that passes, “Prada” only attracts new groupies from re- airings on cable TV. Just this week, John Legend told People he loves to re- watch the movie with his wife Chrissy Teigen. Then there are all the “Prada” tributes on the Internet—celebrating the script’s zingers like, “That’s all!” and “I’m only one stomach flu away from my goal weight.”“I never had any idea that my lines would get quoted to me every single week of my life since the movie has come out,” says Emily Blunt, who played Miranda’s “first” assistant Emily, and hears from fans at airports and bathroom stalls. Anne Hathaway believes the appeal of “Prada” is in the universal nature of its story about a demanding boss. Everybody has had an experience like this,” Hathaway says.

Stanley Tucci, who plays top Runway editor Nigel, puts it more simply. It’s a fucking brilliant movie,” he says. The brilliant movies become influential, no matter what they are about.”“I never had any idea that my lines would get quoted to me every single week of my life.”Emily Blunt on ‘The Devil Wears Prada’But “Prada” wasn’t an easy strut down the catwalk for Hollywood, as Variety learned in an oral history with the film’s stars and executives.

It took Fox several years to bring the project to the big screen. The Voice 2014 Season 6 there. Even after earning a greenlight, director David Frankel was a ball of nerves during the first half of the 5. New York.“The days were long,” Frankel recalls to Variety. Annie was very emotional. She was living with a guy”—her ex- boyfriend Raffaello Follieri—“who was a felon and embezzler.

He didn’t want her to be working at all; he hated that she worked nights. She was always fragile when we shot late.” There were considerable problems scouting locations on a tight budget. The production couldn’t get permission to film at Mo. MA or Bryant Park, and they couldn’t find an actor to play Nigel for months—a role that Tucci accepted 7. Not to mention the four writers that toiled on scripts that were trashed, nearly losing Blunt to another project and trouble securing a luxury apartment for Miranda’s home (the townhouse in the film belongs to a friend of a producer). For a lot of us, it was our first big thing,” Frankel says. We knew we were on very thin ice.

It was possible this could be the end of the road for us.”Instead, “The Devil Wears Prada” served as a career launching pad for almost everybody involved. The movie not only finally proved Streep as a box office force (paving the way for the summer releases of “Mamma Mia!” and “Julie & Julia”), it also introduced U.

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S. audiences to Emily Blunt and changed the trajectory of Anne Hathaway’s career. Before “Rachel Getting Married,” “Les Miserables” or “Interstellar,” “Prada” was the actress’ first leading role in a movie targeted to adults. Hathaway recalls hearing from producers who told her: “Whoa, you stood toe- to- toe with Meryl,” of her role as Andy. I’m kind of the straight man, the observer,” Hathaway says.

I’m proud of what I did. But amongst the showy roles, it’s the quiet one. I think what people saw was promising—it made people want to see more.”Like many instant classics, “Prada” benefited from perfect timing. It marked the beginning of the democratization of the fashion industry—when the masses started to pay attention to the business of what they wore. In 2. 00. 4, “Project Runway” became a hit reality show for Bravo, and the outrageous frocks at the MET Gala would soon generate as much buzz as the Oscars red carpet. But when the premise for the story landed at Fox, none of that had happened yet.

Studios executives bid on the movie rights before the book had even hit shelves in 2. All they saw was the first 1. Fox was sold solely on the strength of the title character. I was the first person to read it at Fox 2. Carla Hacken, the studio’s former executive vice president, who is now the president of production at Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. I thought Miranda Priestly was one of the greatest villains ever. I remember we aggressively went in and scooped it up.”The studio started to adapt the project before the book was even completed.

But once it became a bestseller, they went back and tried to integrate details from Weisberger’s plot. The “Prada” book is a roman- a- clef revenge fantasy (Weisberger briefly worked as Wintour’s assistant at Vogue) about Andy getting even with Miranda. The early drafts of the screenplay, from four different writers, followed the source material closely, and resembled a “Zoolander”- like satire about the fashion world.

If you study the book,” says Elizabeth Gabler, the president of Fox 2. That required quite a bit of invention and trial and error. And since there wasn’t a strong third act in the book, we needed to invent that.”“We knew we were on very thin ice. It was possible this could be the end of the road for us.”‘The Devil Wears Prada’ director David Frankel. The studio interviewed a long list of directors with considerable experience making broad comedies.

But Frankel got the job, even though he’d only made one feature (1. Miami Rhapsody”) and directed TV episodes of “Entourage” and “Sex and the City” (it’s not a coincidence that the movie plays like a love letter to New York). When his agent set up an early call, he decided to bail. It seemed undirectable to me,” Frankel recalls.

It was a satire rather than a love story.” When he eventually took a meeting with producer Wendy Finerman, he was honest about his concerns. Miranda was a witch, and Andy’s motivation was to get her revenge,” Frankel says. There was a lot of conflict that ended with Miranda being humiliated. I felt that wasn’t satisfying. My view was that we should be grateful for excellence. Why do the excellent people have to be nice?”With this vision in mind, Frankel and Fox executives started looking for a writer to pen a new script from scratch.

Rather than adapt the book so closely, the movie would be about the sacrifices successful women make at a fashion magazine. Frankel chose Aline Brosh Mc. Kenna based on their similar observations about living in New York as 2. I wrote a draft pretty quickly—it took me about a month,” Mc.