NEW YORK – Think of "The Devil Wears Prada 2” as this generation’s “All the President’s Men.” Only this time, Bernstein and Woodward are rocking Fendi and Hermès.
Wrapped inside a glossy, Valentino-heeled package, the long-awaited sequel (in theaters May 1) is actually Trojan horsing a capital-J journalism movie. Set 20 years after the events of the hit 2006 dramedy, the new film follows the prickly Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) and principled Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) as they take a valiant last stand for print media against the rapidly changing tides of AI and monetized digital content.
“This is a fun fashion movie. There’s a lot of music; there’s a lot of laughs,” Streep, 76, says with a grin, seated in a downtown hotel that’s been chicly transformed into Miranda’s Runway magazine office.
But at the film's core, “it’s written on the shifting sands of the reality of being alive right now,” she adds. “In every business, in every outlet, in every enterprise – people are uncertain about where it’s all going.”
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