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From left: Streep, Hathaway, Tucci and Blunt at the T he Devil Wears Prada 2 European premiere in London.

Lights, camera, Prada on

C ULT movie TheDevil Wears Prada 2 is bringing back the flash and fashion of the original film but also offers insight into a transformed media landscape, its stars and makers said at the movie’s European premiere in London last Wednesday. The sequel comes two decades after The Devil Wears Prada , with filmmaker David Frankel returning to direct from a screenplay by Aline Brosh McKenna, reported Reuters. It sees Andy Sachs, played by Anne Hathaway, getting laid off from her investigative journalism job and reuniting with her boss from 20 years ago, the feared fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly, portrayed by Meryl Streep. Priestly’s Runway is also grappling with challenges

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heels over four inches”. Stanley Tucci also returns as Priestly’s devoted right-hand man Nigel, while her overworked assistant Emily (Emily Blunt) has moved up to a powerful position in the fashion industry. Lucy Liu, Kenneth Branagh and Simone Ashley are among new cast members. Celebrity cameos in the sequel, which was shot in New York and Milan, include pop star Lady Gaga and fashion designer Donatella Versace. The Devil Wears Prada 2’s global rollout in cinemas will begin today.

people,” said McKenna. The writing came with huge pressure, McKenna said, but she sought to have fun while finding the characters “the way you would an old friend”. Reuniting with much of the original team was “magic”, said Hathaway, who had few conditions for reprising her role. “I just said I thought Andy hadn’t started the family portion of her life, if that ever happened for her. That was my one condition,” she said, adding she was open to everything else – unlike Streep, who joked her many stipulations included “no

characters do with that new landscape,” said Streep on the red carpet. Unlike the first film, which was based on Lauren Weisberger’s novel of the same name, the sequel features an original storyline. “Everybody’s facing challenges, economic challenges. And so it felt like thematically it’d be something that would interest

presented by the digital age and the decline of print media. “It sort of underwrites all the flash and fun and music and the uncertainty of this current moment. “The media landscape, but in every form of business, life, music, art, movies, pick a thing – we’re all being undermined. That’s where the movie kind of starts and it goes from there to see what these

Anne Hathaway transforms into troubled pop icon in Mother Mary OSCAR-WINNER Anne Hathaway spent years perfecting her vocal and dance skills to play a pop star in Mother Mary , a two-hander drama about a complex relationship. and took her training for the film “really seriously”. successful films since I was a teenager, but I also knew that I really wanted to be an artiste and I never wanted to lose who I was as a person in the limelight,” she said.

“I didn’t want to just show up and do a good job, I wanted to do my absolute best and it took several years of being really committed to it,” Hathaway said at the film’s London premiere recently. She said she trained eight hours a day for months to nail a demanding key dance scene and practised consistently while working on other projects, and also spent a year “crafting the voice in a specific way”. The Hollywood star, who a day earlier premiered The Devil Wears Prada 2 in the British capital, said she could understand her character’s battles. “A lot of her is based on the choices that I’ve actively tried not to make. I’m really lucky I’ve been in

The 43-year-old said she felt she had reached an age “where I can appreciate it and enjoy it and not feel buried by it, the way Mother Mary feels buried by it”. The A24 film is written and directed by The Green Knight filmmaker David Lowery and features original songs by Charli xcx, Jack Antonoff and FKA Twigs. Hathaway performs seven songs on the accompanying soundtrack album Mother Mary: Greatest Hits . “We could have written top ten hits, but she had to feel them. She had to sing them and she really pushed to make them as good as they are,” said Lowery. – Reuters

Hathaway portrays Mother Mary, a global pop icon spiralling on the eve of her high-stakes comeback performance following a mysterious incident. Struggling, she travels to England and turns up at the doorstep of fashion designer Sam Anselm (Michaela Coel), requesting her once closest friend who she broke off contact with a decade ago, to make her a dress that truly represents her. The reunion at Anselm’s countryside atelier unearths repressed anger and pain, but also reminders of their tight bond. Hathaway said she drew inspiration from superstar Beyonce

Hathaway plays a pop singer struggling with emotional problems in Mother Mary . – ALL PICS FROM REUTERS