Gird your loins: Anna Wintour and Meryl Streep star on the cover of Vogue’s May issue together.
Everybody wants to be them.
Ahead of the release of “The Devil Wears Prada 2” on May 1, Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour posed together for a very special cover of Vogue — both dressed in Prada, naturally.
Annie Leibovitz photographed the powerful pair for the piece, while Greta Gerwig spoke with the duo about the upcoming sequel, the future of fashion, life in one’s 70s (Streep, Wintour and Leibovitz are all 76) and more.
Streep’s character Miranda Priestly, the icy editor-in-chief of fictional magazine Runway, was famously inspired by Vogue bigwig Wintour; the 2006 film was based on the 2004 novel of the same title by Lauren Weisberger, one of the fashion legend’s former assistants.
Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci all returned for the sequel, along with Streep. Macall Polay/20th Century Studios.
Streep’s character, icy Runway editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly, was famously inspired by Wintour. ©Walt Disney Co./Courtesy Everett Collection
As such, sourcing Miranda’s designer wardrobe for the flick proved challenging, as Streep told Gerwig: “Everybody was afraid of Anna on the first one, so we couldn’t find any clothes. Nobody would give us any clothes.”
But Wintour gamely attended the movie’s premiere — in Prada — and told Gerwig, “It’s such an honor to be played by Meryl, however distant Miranda is from myself. Who wouldn’t think that that wasn’t the most extraordinary gift?”
Still, the media exec admitted to being nervous about the upcoming sequel.
“When I heard rumors that this new film might be happening, I called Meryl to ask if it was true. I knew she would tell me if it was going to be all right,” she recalled.
“She hadn’t yet read the script, so she said she’d call me back. And that’s what she did. She read the script. She called me back and said, ‘Anna, I think it’s going to be all right.’ She told me very little about what happens in the film, but I trusted her implicitly.”
Streep told Vogue she’d never want to run a fashion magazine, quipping that she’d “dread the shoes” the job required. 20th Century Studios
“The Devil Wears Prada 2” hits theaters on May 1. Macall Polay/20th Century Studios.
That said, Streep and Wintour are in no rush to swap jobs in real life.
“There’s no way. I have no gifts. I have absolutely no gifts at all. I can’t sing, I can’t dance, I can’t act, I’m useless with my hands, I can’t cook, I certainly can’t sew,” the Vogue editrix replied when asked whether she’d ever consider an acting career.
Streep, meanwhile, balked at the idea of running a “multinational corporation” like Vogue — not to mention wearing the required wardrobe.
“I would dread the shoes,” she quipped.
