Miranda Priestly Ignited Meryl Streep’s Populist Era, ‘Devil Wears Prada 2’ Shows She’s Still a Crowd-Pleaser

By Guy Lodge

Guy Lodge

Film Critic

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Earlier this week, in one of her umpteen promotional interviews for “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” Meryl Streep deviated from the tried-and-true PR playbook to actually say something interesting. Asked on U.K. radio whether she felt she had softened the deliciously venomous character of Miranda Priestly for the sequel, she made a case for a “messier” approach to characterization: “I think when we tend to Marvel-ize the movies now — we got the villains and we got the good guys — and it’s so boring.”

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