Meryl Streep told how she got used to the role of Miranda Priestley

Since the release of the famous film "The Devil Wears Prada" a long time passed, but very strict and unprincipled careerist Miranda Priestley is remembered by many. The editor-in-chief of the fashion magazine "Podium" was brilliantly played by Meryl Streep, winning this award with 4 awards in various awards.

Miranda Priestley is a collective character

The book "The Devil Wears Prada" was written by one of the assistants of Anna Wintour, the chief editor of American Vogue. It was the prototype of Anna that the audience saw on the screen. Although no official statements from Wintour about this film have been received, but many of her friends could easily find out in the hard head of the glossy editor Vogue.

As for Meryl Streep, she did not copy Anna's style and behavior. The actress decided not to go the easy way and began to create a collective character. In her last interview, Meryl told who she was inspired to work in the picture:

"Clint Eastwood was the first source for me. I was always impressed by his timbre of voice. When he communicated with people, he spoke rather quietly. Everyone had to listen and bend over to him. Such behavior always and everywhere made it the main thing. I took a great sense of humor from Mike Nichols. With him we worked together several times, and I was always amazed at how he knows how to joke. But the external image was collective. Something I took from Carmen Del Orefais, and something from Christine Lagarde. I really wanted to find a middle ground between authority and impregnable elegance. "
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To shoot in the film Strip very seriously prepared

Comedy drama was published in 2006 and immediately won the hearts of millions of fashionable women. The plot was changed quite a lot compared to the book of the same name written by Lauren Weisberger, and talked about a girl who got a job as a junior assistant to Priestley. At the request of the director Miranda was made more demanding of employees, but less insidious.

In addition to working on the collective character, Strip prepared to work in the film, reading the memoirs of Diana Vriland, the legendary editor of Vogue, and the book "The Devil Wears Prada". For this role, Meryl had to lose weight by more than 10 kilograms, change the hairstyle and tactics of behavior with the workers of the set, the actors: she behaved very demanding and quite cold.