Electronic press pack: The Devil Wears Prada Research.

The devil wear prada is an american comedy-drama filmed, which was made in 2006. It has quite a few big named actors/actresses featured in the film, two of which are Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep.

The film is based around a woman called Andrea Sachs (played by Anne Hathaway), who goes to New York and happens to get herself the job of a co-assistant to a powerful magazine editor Miranda Priestly (played by Meryl Streep). Andrea is an inspiring journalist who's poorly dressed and doesn't really care at all about fashion and takes the job as experience and to get her started. However once the job starts to become a routine, Andrea starts to mould in far too well with the job and stars to become just like everyone else which she swore she'd never do.
As the film progresses and Andreas career starts to bloom even more, she starts to loose her friends one by one because of how much she has changed and not for the better. She soon realises that this is not for her and then leaves the job to become a journalist for a small newspaper company in New York.

Cast:

Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly
Anne Hathaway as Andrea "Andy" Sachs
Emily Blunt as Emily Charlton
Stanley Tucci as Nigel
Simon Baker as Christian Thompson
Adrian Grenier as Nate Cooper
Tracie Thoms as Lily
Rich Sommer as Doug
Daniel Sunjata as James Holt
Colleen Dengel as Caroline Priestly
Suzanne Dengel as Cassidy Priestly
David Marshall Grant as Richard Sachs
Tibor Feldman as Irv Ravitz
Rebecca Mader as Jocelyn
Gisele Bündchen as Serena
Alyssa Sutherland as Clacker
Ines Rivero as Clacker at elevator
Stephanie Szostak as Jacqueline Follet

Meryl Streep

To prepare herself for the role, Meryl Streep p read a book by Protege Liz Tilberes and memos by Vogue editor Diana Vreeland. This would get her in the mind set of her role and also Anne Hathaways' role as well. Whilst filming the film, Meryl lost so much wait that in the end all of her clothes had to be taken in to fit her new size. Meryl had quite a lot of control over her role such as choosing to be American instead ofEnglish, choosing to not wear makeup in the scene where she opens up toAndrea and she also suggest the scene where she has a meeting without Andrea to show how Miranda Priestly works on her own.

Anne Hathaway

Anne took a totally different approach to prepare herself for the role, she volunteered as an assistant at an auction house for a whole week. Apparently, Anne was "terrified" about working with Meryl Streep so to start off the relationship well by telling Anne she was perfect for the role and how she was happy to be working with Anne on the film but then made sure her and the rest of the set knew that would be the last nice thing she will say. To fit the role, Anne and Emily Blunt both lost a lot of weight and Anne once mentioned that her and Emily would clutch on to each other because they are so so hungry.

Filming

The films budget was £35 million and was filmed (not including pre/post production) over 57 Days in New York and Paris. The director of the film (David Frenkel) wanted a lot of the film to have the New York busy street scenes in it to emphasise the excitement of working in that industry in a busy city. With the film being based around the fashion industry, a lot of big names clothes were featured in the film making it the most costly costumed film ever made but some wouldn't have their clothes featured as they didn't want to offend Vogue editor (Anne Wintour) who the part of Miranda Priestly was based on. The film altogether made $300 million, mostly from its national run.