Have you died or something? No? Well, after watching The Devil Wears Prada stars’ cast reunion at the 2024 SAG Awards — including an unexpected moment where Meryl Streep tripped on stage — you will.
Though it’s unclear if any of them attended while wearing the Chanel boots, stars Streep (dressed in Prada), Anne Hathaway (wearing the film’s signature color, cerulean) and Oppenheimer nominee Emily Blunt, hit the SAG Awards stage Saturday night to present Male Actor in a Comedy Series to The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White, 17 years after the trio fronted the 2006 comedy hit about an up-and-coming journalist working as an assistant to a cutthroat fashion publication editor.
“Two things: I forgot my glasses — clearly — and the envelope,” Streep said, recovering from tripping over the microphone after Idris Elba welcomed her to the stage. On command, Blunt and Hathaway joined her with her glasses and, of course, the envelope (NOT “The Book”).
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“Oh, okay. It’s an age-old question. Where does the character end and the actor begin?” Streep asked, to which Blunt responded, “As we’ve just seen, Meryl and Miranda Priestly are sort of like twins.”
“I don’t think I’m anything like Miranda Priestly,” Streep said, though Hathaway hilariously cut in with a nod to one of Streep’s most iconic lines from the movie: “No, no — that wasn’t a question.”
Before getting to the category, Streep playfully drew the moment out, prompting Blunt to reference another famous bit of dialogue from the movie. “By all means, move at a glacial pace, you know how that thrills me,” Blunt quipped.
This isn’t the first awards show bit the stars have performed with regards to their Prada characters. Hathaway and Blunt appeared together on stage at the 2007 Oscars to present Best Costume Design to Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, and playfully disappeared back into their Devil Wears Prada characters as they interacted with a displeased-looking Streep in the audience.
Hathaway landed the role of Andy Sachs in director David Frankel’s big-screen adaptation of Lauren Weisberger’s novel of the same name (inspired by the author’s time working under Vogue head Anna Wintour) over several other high-profile actresses, including Rachel McAdams, who ultimately turned the part down. Hathaway’s celebrated turn as an aspiring journalist who reluctantly takes a job as an assistant for Streep’s Miranda Priestly, a ruthless fashion magazine editor, would go on to become one of the most beloved roles in her filmography. Blunt’s turn as one of Priestly’s haughty employees would also serve as her breakout Hollywood role, with many calling for her to receive an Oscar nomination that year (in the end, only Streep and costume designer Patricia Field would end up as the film’s nominees).
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The Devil Wears Prada grossed $327 million at the worldwide box office before becoming a modern classic, with many citing it as a genre-redefining film that broke down gendered lines that often boxed in Hollywood productions about women in the workplace.
“Because they’d given us such straitened circumstances to make the film with a smaller budget, this opened up and said that a ‘chick flick’ can be a huge hit with a broad audience. This is the first movie [where] men have come up to me and said, ‘I know how you felt; I have a company, and nobody understands me. It’s really hard,'” Streep exclusively told EW in 2021 as part of our 15-year anniversary oral history reunion with the cast and crew. “It’s the hardest thing in the world for a man to feel his way through to the protagonist of the film if it’s a woman.”
See Streep, Hathaway, and Blunt reunite at the 2024 SAG Awards above, and see the evening’s full list of winners here.
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