60 Fun Facts About The Devil Wears Prada

Who directed the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada?

Frankel had made only one feature, Miami Rhapsody, plus episodes of Sex and the City and Entourage, and initially walked away because he thought the story punished Miranda too harshly.

Who wrote the 2003 novel the film is based on?

She had worked as an assistant at a major fashion magazine, and the book spent six months on the New York Times bestseller list.

Who has final screenplay credit on The Devil Wears Prada after Peter Hedges, Paul Rudnick and Don Roos drafted it?

She toned down Miranda's cruelty at the producers' request, then restored it once Meryl Streep was cast.

In the film, Andy Sachs has just graduated from which university?

The book gives her a different alma mater; the film also cut her opening scene, in which she goes to the wrong building on the way to her interview.

Andy's boyfriend Nate breaks up with her after she misses which occasion for work?

The scene was originally a much more elaborate night out at a concert with friends, but that proved too expensive, so the cupcake scene was written instead.

At the end of the film, Nate tells Andy he has taken a sous-chef job in which city?

An alternate, more optimistic ending in which the couple have the same conversation while running through the park was filmed but replaced with the restaurant scene.

Andy walks out on Miranda in Paris by tossing her ringing phone into a fountain in which square?

The crew spent only two days in Paris shooting exteriors; every hotel interior in the Paris sequence is actually the St. Regis in Manhattan.

Andy lands a job at which fictional newspaper at the end of the film?

The newsroom used for the scene belonged to the real, now-defunct New York Sun.

Who is the editor of French Runway whom Andy learns is being groomed to replace Miranda?

Miranda already knew about the plot and neutralised it by handing Jacqueline the creative-director job Nigel had been promised.

Nigel accepts a job with which rising designer, only for Miranda to sacrifice it?

Daniel Sunjata originally read unenthusiastically for Nigel, then spotted the Holt part and asked to audition for that instead.

Which two-word dismissal, kept from the novel, is Miranda's signature way of ending a conversation?

The coat-tossing on Andy's desk and the discarded steak lunch also came straight from the book.

Miranda's monologue tracing Andy's "lumpy blue sweater" back to the runways is named after which shade?

Streep saw the speech as being about marketing and business, and McKenna expanded it specifically for her.

Miranda's withering 'Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking' is her reply to a pitch from which staffer?

The script simply read 'florals.' and 'spring.'; Streep's rising intonation turned them into questions and, many say, the best line in the film.

Meryl Streep only signed on after the producers roughly doubled her offer to about how much?

Her casting was the trigger for Fox to greenlight the film, and she was almost passed over because people did not think she was funny.

Which actress, coming off Mean Girls and The Notebook, turned down several offers to play Andy?

Kate Hudson was also offered the part but had a scheduling clash with You, Me and Dupree.

Campaigning for the role of Andy, what did Anne Hathaway trace in a Fox executive's desktop zen garden?

Frankel liked her enough to skip an audition, but she knew she was not the studio's first choice and would have to wait.

Emily Blunt read Emily's lines on the Fox lot right after auditioning for which fantasy film?

Once that film cast Sienna Guillory instead, Frankel called Blunt back; she insisted on keeping the character's accent.

Blunt read for Emily in her own accent and insisted on keeping the character what nationality?

Over 100 actresses had been considered for the part before the casting agent's tape reached Frankel.

Stanley Tucci agreed to play Nigel how many days before shooting began?

The filmmakers had auditioned real fashion commentators Simon Doonan and Robert Verdi, plus Graham Norton and about 150 other actors.

Which actor auditioned for Christian Thompson in the same self-designed green jacket he wears on screen?

Christian's hotel in the film is the W Hotel at Times Square, not anywhere in Paris.

Who played Nate, the boyfriend later reassessed by fans as the film's 'real villain'?

In 2021 the actor said that, after much online deliberation, he had come around to the view that Nate was 'a fragile, wounded boy'.

Which real designer, who made Miranda's black benefit gown, appeared on screen as himself?

Producer Wendy Finerman dared costume designer Patricia Field to ask him in person while he happened to be in New York.

Which supermodel has a cameo as herself in the film?

Gisele Bündchen also agreed to appear, on the condition that she did not play a model.

The novel's author has an uncredited, non-speaking cameo in the film as what?

The twins themselves, played by Colleen and Suzanne Dengel, were asked for three years afterwards whether the Harry Potter manuscript prop was real; it was 'all gibberish'.

Streep said she borrowed Miranda's soft, near-whisper speaking style from which actor-director?

Her joking came from director Mike Nichols, and 'the walk, I'm afraid, is mine'. It was the only film on which she stayed in character between takes.

Miranda's bouffant hairstyle was inspired by which veteran fashion model?

The look was blended with the 'unassailable elegance and authority' of French politician Christine Lagarde.

Streep insisted Miranda's hair be what colour, over producers' fears it would make her look old?

The wig and forelock gave Miranda a signature look in the tradition of editors Diana Vreeland and Anna Wintour.

Which comedian did screenwriter McKenna cite as her main influence for Miranda's insults?

Novelist Weisberger credited the same draft with pulling the film away from the 'typical chick flick' it had been becoming.

Frankel cited which 1995 Isaac Mizrahi documentary as his model for the film's attitude to fashion?

The New York Times later called the film 'easily the truest portrayal of fashion culture' since that documentary.

Principal photography in New York and Paris lasted how many days?

Filming ran from September 17 to mid-December 2005; the Paris shoot was only added after six weeks, when Frankel talked the studio into a small extra budget.

After Nigel opens the Runway closet to Andy, she arrives dressed in which fashion house?

Field felt Hathaway 'was a Chanel girl organically', and the house was happy to be associated with her younger image.

The single most expensive item worn in the film was a $100,000 necklace from which jeweler?

Field estimated a million dollars of borrowed clothing appeared on screen; Streep once skipped spaghetti at lunch so a dress could go back clean.

To give Emily an edgier taste, Field dressed Blunt in Rick Owens and which punk-era designer?

Blunt and Streep only wore their outfit shoes when shown in full and padded around in Uggs the rest of the time; Hathaway wore hers throughout.

Which Paris landmark is Emily's computer wallpaper, hinting at her dream of the Fashion Week trip?

Andy's wallpaper is a floral image, chosen to suggest her natural, unassuming qualities.

The exterior of the charity benefit gala was filmed at which New York institution?

The interior was the lobby of a Foley Square courthouse; the same museum stood in again for the gala in the 2026 sequel.

Andy's makeover montage, with outfit changes hidden behind passing cars, is set to which Madonna song?

Costume designer Patricia Field lobbied hard for the track; Madonna's 'Jump' plays over Andy's first day on the job.

Which KT Tunstall song plays over the opening-credits montage but was left off the soundtrack album?

The omission disappointed fans; a gender-studies critic later singled the song out for celebrating female beauty standards the film never questions.

Which U2 song plays over Miranda and Andy in Paris, after Frankel used it on his sizzle reel?

That sizzle reel, meant only to win funding for the Paris shoot, convinced Fox to move the release from February to summer.

Who composed the film's score, and returned for the sequel?

He wrote 35 minutes of guitar-and-percussion-led music, performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony.

The film's poster shows a red stiletto whose heel is shaped like what?

It was designed only as a teaser but worked so well it became the release poster and the cover of the soundtrack, DVD and novel reprint.

Fox released the film as counter-programming against which superhero blockbuster on the same weekend?

It finished second that weekend with $27 million; Vanity Fair later called the loss the 'most ironic' case of a forgotten film beating a classic.

Roughly how much did the film gross worldwide, against a budget of about $40m?

It was a career-high for all three lead actresses at the time; international audiences delivered 60% of the total.

Streep's Best Actress nomination for Miranda was her how-manyeth Academy Award nomination?

She won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, and the film's only other Oscar nomination went to Patricia Field for costume design.

According to her friend Barbara Amiel, where did Anna Wintour predict the film would end up?

She attended the New York premiere anyway; by 2025 she called it 'a fair shot', and she shared a magazine cover with Streep in 2026.

The Simpsons parodied the film in a 2009 episode with what title?

The Office also opened an episode with Michael Scott imitating Miranda after watching the film on Netflix.

In Weisberger's novel, unlike the film, Andy is a graduate of which Ivy League university?

In the book she dreams of working at The New Yorker and ends up selling a short story to Seventeen after being fired.

In the novel, Miranda Priestly, who was born in England, had what birth name?

The book's Miranda also wears an Hermès scarf somewhere on her person every single day.

Weisberger's 2013 sequel novel, set a decade later, is titled what?

A third book, When Life Gives You Lululemons, followed in 2018; the film sequel ignored both.

Who composed the music for the stage musical adaptation?

The show tried out in Chicago in 2022 and opened at London's Dominion Theatre in 2024 with Vanessa Williams as Miranda.

Who played Miranda in the pre-Broadway tryout of the musical in Chicago in 2022?

The composer admitted afterwards the show was not ready and would need 'about another year'.

In The Devil Wears Prada 2, Emily Charlton is now a senior executive at which luxury house?

The production was allowed to film in the brand's 57th Street boutique before it opened, one of many doors that 'saying the words The Devil Wears Prada' unlocked.

Kenneth Branagh joined the sequel's cast as whom?

Lucy Liu and Justin Theroux also joined, and Lady Gaga appears as a fictionalised version of herself.

The sequel's fashion-week gala scenes were shot on location in which Italian city?

The Last Supper dinner scene was actually filmed on a three-quarter-scale set with a hand-painted copy of Leonardo's fresco, because the real refectory was off limits.

Streep, Hathaway and Blunt each received how much upfront for the sequel, at pay parity?

The $100 million budget was almost triple the original's, but Frankel said most of the difference was actors' salaries.

Which original song does Lady Gaga perform on screen in the sequel?

Her single with Doechii led the soundtrack, and her scene was moved from the Piazza del Duomo to the Accademia di Brera to keep it secret.

The sequel's first full trailer was watched roughly how many times in its first 24 hours?

20th Century Studios called it the most-viewed trailer in its history; the earlier teaser had already drawn 181.5 million views in a day.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 opened in US theaters on the first day of which month in 2026?

Disney had originally booked that date for Avengers: Doomsday and swapped the films after the sequel was fast-tracked.

In The Devil Wears Prada 2, who plays Jay Ravitz, the finance-bro heir to publisher Elias-Clarke?

Justin Theroux plays Emily's boyfriend Benji Barnes and Lucy Liu his ex-wife Sasha; Simone Ashley plays Amari Mari.

Roughly how much had The Devil Wears Prada 2 grossed worldwide by August 2026?

By August 2026 it ranked as the sixth-highest-grossing film of the year, more than doubling the original's worldwide take.

In which month did development of The Devil Wears Prada 2 begin, with all four leads signing on?

Streep and Hathaway had long been hesitant about a sequel; the original's director and screenwriter both returned.