Emily Blunt dropped a bombshell in a recent interview when she revealed that Meryl Streep did not base her iconic “The Devil Wears Prada” character on Anna Wintour.
It was a long-held belief that the 69-year-old Vogue editor was the inspiration for Miranda Priestly, the scathing fashionista played to perfection by Streep, who earned an Oscar nomination for her performance in the 2006 hit movie.
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However, while the book the film is based on might have been inspired by Wintour, that is not the case for the big screen adaptation, at least according to Blunt, who revealed the secret in an interview with NPR‘s Terry Gross.
“Meryl didn’t actually base it on Anna Wintour. Well, she told Anna that,” said the 35-year-old actress, who was on the show to talk about her starring role in “Mary Poppins Returns”.
“She based it on two men in Hollywood that she knew – who will remain nameless — but I know who they are. That’s all.”
Blunt and Streep have shared the screen a number of times over the years, starting with “The Devil Wears Prada”, and again in 2014 in the musical fantasy “Into The Woods”. The two award-winning actresses reunited as distant cousins in “Mary Poppins Returns”.
In a recent interview with Elle UK, the British actress talked about how nervous she was when she first met Streep. “I was terrified. Terrified. I was terrified in general, it was like my first big film,” she explained.
“I didn’t know what this ‘table read’ business was, so we sat down and had a table read and I remember shaking, coming up to my first line and [Streep] was very kind and she laughed on my first line, she just went ‘Mmhm’, like that, and I was like, ‘Thank you, Meryl!'”
