Meryl Streep in 2006's 'The Devil Wears Prada.' 20th Century Fox Film Corp. “Gird your loins” everyone. Miranda Priestly is back.
Meryl Streep steps into the fashionable shoes of Miranda Priestly once again for The Devil Wears Prada 2, releasing on May 1. In the original 2006 film, Anne Hathaway’s Andy works for the fashion power mogul Priestly and her Runway magazine but quickly learns that working with Miranda comes with some challenges, sacrifices and insults.
Throughout the original film, Streep’s Priestly famously delivers a number of iconic lines that serve as jabs, reflecting both her blunt honesty and great knowledge of the fashion world.
Theming a spring photoshoot with florals? So boring and unoriginal. Asking too many questions? Bore someone else with those. Need to power through work while sick? You probably have a viral plague. No matter the circumstances, Miranda is never shy about sharing her thoughts.
Ahead of Miranda’s comeback in The Devil Wears Prada 2, which also sees the return of original stars Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci, The Hollywood Reporter takes a look back at Streep’s iconic Miranda lines from the first film.
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Cerulean Sweater Monologue
Image Credit: Everett When reviewing outfits for a photoshoot, Priestly asks about the belts, and an assistant brings two for her while noting, “It’s a tough call. They’re so different.” Watching the interaction, Andy laughs, which catches the attention of everyone in the room. After arguing that the belts look the same but that she’s still “learning about this stuff,” Miranda was not pleased and dove into an education in fashion while insulting Andy’s cerulean sweater.
“You go to your closet, and you select I don’t know, that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back, but what you don’t know is that that sweater is not just blue, it’s not turquoise, it’s not lapis, it’s actually cerulean. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that, in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns, and then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent, wasn’t it who showed cerulean military jackets. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. Then it filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic casual corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars of countless jobs, and it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you’re wearing a sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room… from a pile of ‘stuff.’”
