Emily Blunt’s daughters may not be thrilled to learn about the alleged Devil Wears Prada sequel.
According to Blunt, 10-year-old Hazel and seven-year-old Violet were not fans of her character in the 2006 classic. “They thought I was the meanest person they’ve ever met,” Blunt told Page Six of their reaction at the 18th Annual American Institute for Stuttering gala.
It’s been nearly twenty years since Blunt played Emily, the carb-hating Runway magazine assistant competing with Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) for the attention and favor of editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep). “It’s incredible that [The Devil Wears Prada] has such an indelible fingerprint on people and it’s people’s standby feel-good movie,” Blunt told Page Six. “It’s quoted to me every week.”
Of course, Blunt’s daughters—whom she shares with husband John Krasinski—were not completely wrong in their assessment. Though Emily softened towards Andy by the end of the film, some of her one-liners were as brutal as they are iconic and quotable.
Whether Emily Blunt’s daughters like it or not, her character’s relationship with Priestly will reportedly serve as the central focus of The Devil Wears Prada sequel. Though Disney has not officially announced a follow-up film, Variety reports the project “follows Priestly as she navigates her career amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing and faces off against Blunt’s character, now a high-powered executive for a luxury group with advertising dollars that Priestly desperately needs.”
What about Andy Sachs? Well, Hathaway has been pretty blunt about returning to this universe. “There’s not going to be a sequel. It’s not gonna happen. We can’t do it,” she told Entertainment Tonight in 2023.
Her position somewhat softened in 2024, though she still had strong reservations. “We all love each other and if somebody could come up with a way to do it, I think we’d all be crazy not to,” she told V Magazine in April. “But there’s a huge difference in the world now with technology, and one of the things about that particular story is it was about producing a physical object. Now with so much being digital, it would just be very different.”
She continued, “Maybe me, Stanley, Emily, Meryl, Dave Frankel, Patricia Field…we should just all do something else together. That’d be fun.”
