Emily Blunt admitted she found Meryl Streep truly intimidating while filming The devil wears Prada, and Streep herself was happy to confirm why.
The original actors, Streep, Blunt, Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci, reunite for a SiriusXM First row hosted by Andy Cohen before the sequel’s release.
When Cohen asked Blunt if Streep had been difficult to approach on set, she didn’t hold back.
“I mean, in the first one, I was pretty scared because I felt 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 this area actually looked like in practice.
“She was in a Miranda zone,” she said. “Not inscrutable, but we could come and tell you a funny story, but you wouldn’t do your amazing laugh that I normally hear.”
Streep explained her thinking behind this approach, describing a deliberate technique she developed early in the film, staying close to the camera between takes and staying slightly apart from the rest of the cast.
“The authority, the thing,” she said. She also discussed a recent conversation with Greta Gerwig on the same topic.
“She said the same thing. You know, they don’t want you at the cast party, right? It’s like you have to have just a little barrier to feel like the boss.”
She described sitting alone in her trailer and hearing everyone having a good time in the makeup room. “I could hear it from a distance, they’re all having a good time,” she recalled.
Cohen and Streep simultaneously landed on the same punchline: “It feels alone 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, hits theaters May 1.
