The three actresses sat down with PEOPLE 20 years after 'The Devil Wears Prada' opened in theaters
NEED TO KNOW
- Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt tell PEOPLE they’re game to make a third Devil Wears Prada movie
- “They have to be alive,” Streep quips of her returning costars, including Stanley Tucci
- The Devil Wears Prada 2 is now in theaters, 20 years after the release of the original
It took 20 years to get the band back together for a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada — which begs the question: What would it take to have Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt return for a third?
"The script," Streep, 76, says immediately when asked alongside her costars in an interview for this week's issue of PEOPLE.
"A good script. It's all about the script," Blunt, 43, agrees.
"And then, everybody has to say yes," Hathaway, 43, adds, to which Blunt says, "It's got to be the core four." (Meaning the three actresses plus returning cast member Stanley Tucci, who happens to be married to Blunt's sister, Felicity Blunt.)
Most importantly, Streep jokes, "They have to be alive."
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The new film sees Streep return as the iconic editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly, reuniting with Hathaway's Andy Sachs, now Runway's newly appointed features editor. Together, the pair must work to woo Priestly's former assistant Emily Charlton (Blunt) — now running Dior's U.S. operations — for ad dollars.
While speaking with PEOPLE, the trio also reflected on revisiting their characters all these years later.
"The thing that struck me was that when we made the first one, I was just a 22-year-old mess," said Hathaway. "I mean, I'm in such a different phase of my life. I'm really lucky. I found someone that I love so much [husband Adam Shulman]. We've been married for 17 years. We've got two kids. I just feel like my life is in a much more complete and whole place. I felt so lost when I was 22, which really worked for the character."
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For Streep, the experience was "kind of easy." "I think you keep these characters," she explained. "I liked discovering [Miranda] again."
Blunt agreed, adding, "You are sort of fused with this person you're playing. Listen, I love playing this lunatic. I had a lot of fun slithering back into her shoes."
The Devil Wears Prada 2 is now in theaters.
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