Emily Blunt has confessed that she found Meryl Streep really intimidating while filming The devil wears Prada, and Streep herself was happy to confirm why.
The original cast, Streep, Blunt, Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci, reunite for a SiriusXM First row hosted by Andy Cohen prior to the sequel’s release.
When Cohen asked Blunt if it had been difficult to approach Streep on set, she didn’t hold back.
“I mean, in the first one, I was pretty scared because I feel like you were in a zone,” she told her co-star directly. Streep’s response was immediate: “Oh, yeah. I was in that zone.”
Blunt explained what that area actually looked like in practice.
“She was in a Miranda zone,” he said. “It’s not impenetrable, but we could come up and tell you a funny story, but you wouldn’t make that extraordinary laugh that I normally hear.”
Streep explained her thinking behind this approach, describing a deliberate technique she developed in the film’s early days, staying close to the camera between takes and standing slightly away from the rest of the cast.
“Authority, the thing,” he said. He also mentioned a recent conversation with Greta Gerwig about the same topic.
“She was saying the same thing. You know, like they don’t want you at the cast party, right? It’s like you have to have a little barrier to feel like the boss.”
She described sitting alone in her trailer listening to everyone else having a great time in the makeup room. “I could hear from afar that everyone was having a great time,” he recalled.
Cohen and Streep simultaneously agreed on the same punchline: “It’s lonely being at the top.”
The Devil Wears Prada 2in which Streep’s Miranda Priestly navigates the decline of print media and confronts Blunt’s now-powerful character, opens in theaters May 1.
