Anna Wintour can take it — that’s all.
The former Vogue editor-in-chief, 75, revealed that she’s not offended by Meryl Streep’s Wintour-esque character, Miranda Priestly, in “The Devil Wears Prada.”
“Well, I went to the premiere wearing Prada. Completely having no idea what the film was going to be about,” Wintour claimed on Tuesday’s episode of “The Run-Through with Vogue” podcast.
“And I think that the fashion industry [was] very sweetly concerned for me about the film that it was gonna paint me in some kind of difficult light,” Wintour continued, as host David Remnick interjected, “Cartoonish.”
“Yes. A caricature. Yeah,” Wintour said. “But first of all, it was Meryl Streep which — fantastic. And then I went to see the film, and I found it highly enjoyable and very funny.”
Wintour noted that the 2006 dramedy is filled with “humor” and “wit.”
“It had Meryl Streep… It was Emily Blunt I mean, they were all amazing,” the fashion icon stated. “And I, in the end, I thought it was a fair shot.”
Directed by David Frankel, “The Devil Wears Prada” is based on Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel that is loosely inspired by her stint as an assistant to Wintour at Vogue.
The film stars Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs, an aspiring journalist who gets a job at Runway Magazine. Streep, 76, plays the magazine’s ruthless editor-in-chief, Miranda Priestly.
The sequel is currently in production in New York with Hathaway, Streep, Blunt and Stanley Tucci reprising their roles.
On the podcast, Remnick quoted a line Miranda says to Andy in the movie when she asked Wintour if she was “actually thrilled when assistants move at a glacial pace.”
“Nobody at Vogue moves at a glacial pace, least of all my assistants,” Wintour responded.
Wintour rarely makes comments about “The Devil Wears Prada.”
In fact, a 2022 biography about Wintour claimed that she couldn’t remember who Weisberger was when the book was sold to the publishing company Doubleday in 2002.
“When Anna learned about the book, she said to [managing editor Laurie] Jones, ‘I cannot remember who that girl is,’” biographer author Amy Odell wrote.
The biography noted that while Wintour was at a private screening of the film in New York City in 2006, Frankel allegedly overheard Wintour’s daughter, Bee Shaffer, telling her mom that the movie “really got” her character correct.
Wintour served as the editor-in-chief of Vogue from 1988 until she named Chloe Malle, daughter of actress Candice Bergen, as the new head of editorial content at Vogue US last week.
But Wintour will continue to serve as global editorial director at Vogue and global chief content officer at Vogue’s parent company, Condé Nast.
