Meryl Streep’s “The Devil Wears Prada” character Miranda Priestly is considered impressed by former Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. But it seems the connection between the 2 goes deeper than an iconic function and impeccable style.
Ahead of Streep reprising her function as the top of the fictional Runway journal for “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” arriving in theaters May 1, Ancestry found that the three-time Oscar winner and the style mogul are associated.
The family tree firm has confirmed that Streep and Wintour share fifth great-grandparents, Thomas Smith and Elizabeth Kinsey, making them sixth cousins, TODAY completely revealed April 2.
Smith and Kinsey resided in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Ancestry additionally shared, which occurs to be simply 20 miles from the place “The Devil Wears Prada” creator, Lauren Weisberger, was raised. Weisberger beforehand labored as Wintour’s assistant earlier than penning her debut novel.
Streep and Wintour have crossed paths a number of occasions since “The Devil Wears Prada” was launched in 2006. Over a decade after Streep first portrayed Miranda Priestly, she met up with Wintour for an interview in her Vogue workplace. The journal shared a video of their 2017 sit-down, which featured an intro just like Miranda Priestly’s dramatic arrival in the beginning of the 2006 flick.
At the time of the video, Streep was starring within the film “The Post,” through which she performed the late Washington Post writer Katharine Graham. Wintour described Graham as her buddy within the clip earlier than asking the actor to call probably the most difficult lady she has ever performed.
“Hmm … oh I should say!” Streep started earlier than Wintour laughed and reduce her off.
Wintour playfully mentioned, “No, we’re not going there, Meryl.”
The two reunited in September 2025 after they each attended the Dolce & Gabbana Milan Fashion Week present whereas Streep was filming “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” Variety reported.
Vogue uploaded a video of the interplay on Instagram that confirmed the 2 embracing whereas each sporting sun shades indoors. The caption learn, partly, “Can you please spell Gabbana,” a line Anne Hathaway’s character Andy Sachs asks within the first film.
“This is my first fashion show,” Streep advised Wintour within the clip. Wintour later chatted with Stanley Tucci, who’s reprising his function of Nigel Kipling within the sequel, in addition to Simone Ashley, who’s enjoying a brand new character.
A pair weeks earlier than their reunion, Wintour was a visitor on “The New Yorker Radio Hour” podcast and revealed how she feels concerning the comparisons between her and Miranda Priestly.
The Condé Nast international chief content material officer and creative director recalled attending the premiere for “The Devil Wears Prada” 20 years in the past whereas sporting Prada, and “having no idea what the film was going to be about.”
“I think that the fashion industry were very sweetly concerned for me about the film. That it was going to paint me in some kind of difficult light,” she remembered.
Host David Remnick mentioned these near her may need been fearful the portrayal could possibly be “cartoonish.”
Wintour agreed and mentioned, “Yes, a caricature.”
“But first of all it was Meryl Streep, which, fantastic,” she continued. “Then I went to see the film, and I found it highly enjoyable and very funny. Miuccia (Prada) and I talk about it a lot. I say to her, ‘Well it was really good for you.’ You can imagine what she says back.”
She appreciated the movie’s humor and wit, and Streep and Emily Blunt’s performances.
“They were all amazing. In the end, I thought it was a fair shot,” Wintour mentioned.
