Miranda Is Not the Villain, with The Devil Wears Prada 2’s Writer & Director

It is on.

Aline and David, thank you for coming on On.

We're happy to be here.

Great to be here.

So the reaction to Devil Wears Prada 2 has been overwhelmingly positive.

Congratulations.

The New Yorker called it a savvy, shiny reflection of our era.

The Guardian called it good-natured, buoyant entertainment.

And entertainment writer Louis Peitzman said the movie is legitimately great, not just another soulless legacy sequel.

Sequels are often treated with suspicion, especially when the original is a cultural phenomenon.

Fans have developed a strong emotional attachment to it.

So talk about the sort of anxieties you had leading up to, uh, it coming out.

Let's hear from David and then Aline.

Well, the anxieties persisted, um, till this morning.

I, the, um, the, [laughs] the-- we, you know, we really resisted the idea.

We, we mistrusted le- any kind of legacy sequel ourselves.

So when the topic first came up in the immediate wake of the first movie's release, we resisted it, and we resisted it for eighteen years.

And it, it wasn't until a couple years ago when, like, you know, the conversation turned to, "Should we consider this yet again?" And the, the-- Aline had this notion that, wow, the world's really changed around these characters, and maybe there's something to explore here.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.