60 Fun Facts About The Devil Wears Prada

Before The Devil Wears Prada, director David Frankel and stylist Patricia Field both worked on which TV series?

Sex and the City. Frankel had made just one feature film, and he first tried to dodge this job because the early script was a satire that ended with Miranda humiliated.

Lauren Weisberger wrote The Devil Wears Prada after working as an assistant to which magazine editor?

Anna Wintour. Weisberger had been her assistant, and when the film came out the editor turned up to an early New York screening wearing Prada.

Which screenwriter has sole screenplay credit on The Devil Wears Prada?

Aline Brosh McKenna. The one fashion insider willing to read her script said its characters were too nice, so she did a pass making everyone busier and meaner.

In The Devil Wears Prada, Andy Sachs has just graduated from which university?

Northwestern. Andy tells Miranda she edited The Daily Northwestern, and her father later asks why someone accepted to Stanford Law turned it down to be a journalist.

In The Devil Wears Prada, Andy misses which occasion for her boyfriend Nate because of work?

His birthday party. A charity benefit for Miranda keeps Andy out late, and she comes home with a single candlelit cupcake just as Nate heads to bed.

At the end of The Devil Wears Prada, Nate has taken a sous-chef job in which city?

Boston. Nate has landed a place at the Oak Room, and when Andy says she will miss his grilled cheese he jokes that Boston has bread too, so they might work something out.

In The Devil Wears Prada, Andy tosses her ringing phone into a fountain in which Paris square?

Place de la Concorde. The crew had only two days in Paris and Meryl Streep never made the trip, so Miranda's side of that scene was shot back in New York.

At the end of The Devil Wears Prada, Andy lands a job at which New York newspaper?

The New York Mirror. Its editor tells Andy that Miranda called her the biggest disappointment of all her assistants, then added that he would be an idiot not to hire her.

In The Devil Wears Prada, which French Runway editor does Andy learn is being groomed to replace Miranda?

Jacqueline Follet. Miranda already knew of the plot and defused it by handing Jacqueline the dream job that Nigel had been promised.

In The Devil Wears Prada, Miranda gives away Nigel's new job with which rising designer?

James Holt. Nigel was to be Holt's partner in a newly financed global label, but Miranda hands the post to a rival to save herself, leaving Nigel hoping she will pay him back.

In The Devil Wears Prada, which two-word dismissal is Miranda's signature way of ending a conversation?

"That's all." At the first table read the cast expected Miranda to bark, but Streep delivered her lines in a near whisper and the whole room gasped.

In The Devil Wears Prada, Miranda tells Andy her "lumpy blue sweater" is actually which shade?

Cerulean. The speech exists because Meryl Streep asked for a scene about the business of fashion, so that Miranda would be more than a cruel boss.

In The Devil Wears Prada, which idea for spring does Miranda dismiss with a withering "Groundbreaking"?

Florals. The script gave Miranda the words as flat statements, and it was Streep's rising delivery that turned them into sarcastic questions.

In The Devil Wears Prada, what news leaves Miranda bare-faced in a hotel robe in Paris?

Her divorce. Streep asked for a scene showing Miranda without her armor, and came to shoot it with no make-up on.

Fox offered the role of Andy in The Devil Wears Prada several times to which actress, who kept declining?

Rachel McAdams. Fresh from Mean Girls and The Notebook, she wanted a break from mainstream films, so Anne Hathaway, who knew she was not first choice, simply waited.

Campaigning to star in The Devil Wears Prada, Anne Hathaway traced what in a Fox executive's desktop zen garden?

"Hire me." Hathaway left the words in the sand for the executive to find after their meeting, then had to wait while the studio chased a bigger star.

Emily Blunt was taped reading for The Devil Wears Prada while on the Fox lot auditioning for which fantasy film?

Eragon. Only once the dragon epic's makers passed on Blunt could she take the part, and the director's call found her drowning her sorrows in a London club.

Casting Emily Blunt changed what about Emily in The Devil Wears Prada?

Her nationality. Emily was written as an American, but Blunt, late for a flight home, read the lines in her own stern accent, and the screenwriter later reworked the lines with her to suit it.

Who joined The Devil Wears Prada as Nigel at three days' notice?

Stanley Tucci. The last-minute job ended up making him family: at co-star Emily Blunt's wedding he grew close to her sister Felicity, and the two later married.

Which actor plays Christian Thompson, the writer who pursues Andy in The Devil Wears Prada?

Simon Baker. He and Anne Hathaway flew to Paris for a single weekend of filming, but Miranda's Paris hotel suite is really in the St. Regis in Manhattan.

Which actor plays Nate, Andy's chef boyfriend, in The Devil Wears Prada?

Adrian Grenier. When fans began calling Nate the film's real villain he could not see it, but by 2021 he had come round, describing Nate as 'a fragile, wounded boy'.

Which real fashion designer appears as himself in The Devil Wears Prada?

Valentino Garavani. Most designers stayed away for fear of offending the editor thought to have inspired Miranda, but he made his cameo anyway.

Which supermodel has a cameo as herself in The Devil Wears Prada?

Heidi Klum. Fellow supermodel Gisele Bündchen is in the film too, but as Emily's Runway friend Serena rather than as herself.

Novelist Lauren Weisberger has a wordless cameo in The Devil Wears Prada as what?

The twins' nanny. In her novel the nanny, Cara, is eventually fired by Miranda for disciplining the girls.

For The Devil Wears Prada, Meryl Streep borrowed Miranda's near-whisper voice from which actor-director?

Clint Eastwood. Streep had watched him run a film set without ever raising his voice, which made everyone lean in to listen and left him the most powerful person in the room.

Meryl Streep based Miranda's look partly on which French politician?

Christine Lagarde. Streep wanted a cross between her 'unassailable elegance and authority' and the veteran model Carmen Dell'Orefice, and arrived with the look already worked out, to the studio's surprise.

Fox executives had to be talked into which part of Meryl Streep's look for Miranda in The Devil Wears Prada?

Her white hair. The producers balked, equating white hair with grey, but Streep held firm, and after she walked into a studio meeting as Miranda nobody raised the hair again.

The screenwriter of The Devil Wears Prada named which comedian as a huge influence on Miranda's insults?

Don Rickles. She grew up watching the insult comic with her father, and had some of Miranda's put-downs written before she even pitched for the job.

In The Devil Wears Prada, Miranda orders Andy to get her twins the unpublished manuscript of which book series?

Harry Potter. Miranda sets the impossible errand the morning after Andy blunders upstairs at her home, and Andy pulls it off through a writer she met at a party.

In The Devil Wears Prada, what is "the Book" delivered to Miranda's home every night?

A mock-up of the magazine. On her first delivery Andy is lured upstairs by the twins and blunders into a private argument, a mistake that nearly gets her fired.

In The Devil Wears Prada, Andy's makeover is unveiled with thigh-high boots from which fashion house?

Chanel. Patricia Field saw Hathaway as 'a Chanel girl', and the house lent generously because it wanted to be seen on young women.

In The Devil Wears Prada, Emily is hit by a car while carrying what back to Miranda?

Hermès scarves. Emily is on the phone gabbling about the scarves when she steps into the road, so Andy ends up breaking the news about Paris at her hospital bedside.

For Emily's edgier wardrobe in The Devil Wears Prada, Patricia Field leaned on which designer?

Vivienne Westwood. Much of the film's wardrobe was borrowed: about $1 million of clothing was used against a wardrobe budget of $100,000.

In The Devil Wears Prada, Emily says she is just one what away from her goal weight?

Stomach flu. Emily is starving herself for Paris, allowing a cube of cheese only when she feels faint, yet when the trip comes Miranda takes Andy instead.

The Met Gala-style benefit in The Devil Wears Prada was filmed outside which other New York museum?

American Museum of Natural History. The real Met wanted nothing to do with the production, so the natural history museum stood in, and it did so again for the 2026 sequel.

In The Devil Wears Prada, Andy's makeover montage of outfit after outfit is set to which Madonna song?

"Vogue" carries Andy to work through six different outfits, each change hidden as a car or a passer-by crosses the screen.

Which KT Tunstall song plays over the opening credits of The Devil Wears Prada?

"Suddenly I See." The song opens the film, yet it is missing from the official soundtrack album, whose twelve tracks include nothing by Tunstall.

Which U2 song plays over Andy and Miranda's arrival in Paris in The Devil Wears Prada?

"City of Blinding Lights." Two years later the same track found a bigger stage, when Barack Obama made it his usual walk-on music at 2008 campaign rallies.

In The Devil Wears Prada, a hurricane strands Miranda in which city on the eve of her twins' recital?

Miami. Andy cannot find a single flight or private jet out through the storm, and the dressing-down she gets for failing sends her to Nigel for the makeover.

The poster for The Devil Wears Prada shows a red stiletto whose heel ends in what?

A pitchfork. The studio designed the image only as a teaser, then liked it so much it stayed as the main poster; the trailer, likewise, was simply the film's first three minutes.

Fox opened The Devil Wears Prada as counter-programming against which comic-book blockbuster on the same weekend?

Superman Returns. The superhero won the weekend, but ten years on Variety judged that Miranda had 'clobbered the Man of Steel' in the contest that lasted, for a place in pop culture.

On a budget of about $40 million, The Devil Wears Prada grossed roughly how much worldwide?

$327 million. Sold mainly to women, it pulled in men too: Streep said it was the first of her films that men told her they saw themselves in.

Besides Best Actress, The Devil Wears Prada earned which other Oscar nomination?

Costume Design. Patricia Field earned the nomination for a wardrobe in which she deliberately avoided copying the real editor Miranda was said to be based on.

Which sitcom boss starts treating his staff like Miranda Priestly after renting The Devil Wears Prada?

Michael Scott. In The Office he hurls his coat at Pam and bellows for his steak while the Netflix disc lasts, then apologises once he has watched the ending.

Which 2009 episode of The Simpsons borrowed its title from The Devil Wears Prada?

"The Devil Wears Nada." In its parody plot Carl is promoted, makes Homer his overworked executive assistant and hauls him off on a work trip to Paris.

In the novel The Devil Wears Prada, what does Andy do in Paris that ends her job?

Swears at Miranda publicly. The outburst lands Andy in the Page Six gossip column, and back home she lives off the proceeds of selling her Runway designer wardrobe.

In the novel The Devil Wears Prada, unlike in the film, Miranda Priestly is what nationality?

British. The book's Miranda was born Miriam Princhek in London's East End, but Streep chose not to play her English, to keep the character apart from the real editor.

Lauren Weisberger's 2013 sequel to her novel The Devil Wears Prada is titled what?

Revenge Wears Prada. It picks up almost a decade on with Andy about to marry, but when Hollywood made The Devil Wears Prada 2 in 2026 it wrote its own story instead.

Who composed the music for the stage musical of The Devil Wears Prada?

Elton John. After the 2022 Chicago tryout he said bluntly that the show was 'not ready', and a reimagined production opened in London's West End two years later.

Who opened as Miranda Priestly in the West End musical of The Devil Wears Prada in 2024?

Vanessa Williams. Beth Leavel had played the role at the 2022 Chicago tryout, but the show was reimagined for London under a new director and opened with a new Miranda.

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

Dior. The crew was let into the brand's new flagship at 57th Street and Madison Avenue to film there a few days before it opened to the public.

Kenneth Branagh joined The Devil Wears Prada 2 in which role?

Miranda's new husband. HR complaints have curbed Miranda's tyranny at the office, and at home she has a close, happy marriage with Branagh's Stuart.

The Devil Wears Prada took Miranda to Paris; which city hosts the climax of The Devil Wears Prada 2?

Milan. One of its treasures had to be faked: Leonardo's Last Supper was off limits to cameras, so painters from Rome copied it by hand on a three-quarter-scale set.

For The Devil Wears Prada 2, Streep, Hathaway and Blunt reportedly struck what salary deal?

Equal pay for all three: a reported $12.5 million each. On the first film, by the studio's own account, Streep got about $4 million and Hathaway under $1 million.

Which pop star plays a version of herself in The Devil Wears Prada 2, performing at Runway's fashion show?

Lady Gaga. To keep her cameo secret, the fashion-show scene was moved from a crowded public square to a more private venue, and she wrote three new songs for the soundtrack.

In The Devil Wears Prada 2, Andy returns to Runway in which job?

Features editor. After her whole newsroom is laid off during an awards ceremony, Runway's owner hires her to restore the magazine's credibility, without telling Miranda.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 took which Marvel film's release date?

Avengers: Doomsday. When Disney pushed the superhero epic back to December 2026, the fashion sequel took its slot and opened to $77 million in North America, nearly triple the original's debut.

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

B. J. Novak. His Jay takes charge of Elias-Clarke after his father Irv, the chairman from the first film, and promptly starts cutting Runway's budgets.

Who plays Sasha Barnes, the reclusive divorcée who rescues Runway in The Devil Wears Prada 2?

Lucy Liu. Her Sasha, the ex-wife of a tech billionaire, first grants Andy a rare interview and in the end buys the whole publishing company out from under him.

Which fashion designer plays herself in The Devil Wears Prada 2?

Donatella Versace. Twenty years earlier designers had steered clear of the original; this time she and Marc Jacobs both appeared, and Jacobs opened his own fitting rooms to the crew.