Meryl Streep : le moment musical à ne pas manquer

Meryl Streep has revealed that she nearly turned down The Devil Wears Prada and said she “doubled” her salary ask before agreeing to doone of the most defining roles of her career a decade ago. Meryl Streep s'impose comme l'un des sujets qui mobilisent l'attention en Switzerland ce jeudi.

Les faits

• Meryl Streep has revealed that she nearly turned down The Devil Wears Prada and said she “doubled” her salary ask before agreeing to doone of the most defining roles of her career a decade ago.
• Streep says she ‘knew it was going to be a hit’ as soon as she read the script.
• The Devil Wears Prada, based on Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel of the same name, was released in 2006 to both commercial and critical success, raking in $326.7m worldwide and winning Streep a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture.
• Streep, who was 56 at the time she was offered the film, said that it had taken her that much time in her five-decade-long career to “understand that I could do that, that you can ask for what you want”.
• On the sequel, Streep added that the conversation about a sequel started in 2009, but “we all waited until we had that good idea”.

L'essentiel

Dans le détail, Streep says she ‘knew it was going to be a hit’ as soon as she read the script.

Sur le fond, the Devil Wears Prada, based on Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel of the same name, was released in 2006 to both commercial and critical success, raking in $326.7m worldwide and winning Streep a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture.

Concrètement, Streep, who was 56 at the time she was offered the film, said that it had taken her that much time in her five-decade-long career to “understand that I could do that, that you can ask for what you want”.

Au-delà de ce constat, On the sequel, Streep added that the conversation about a sequel started in 2009, but “we all waited until we had that good idea”.

Reste à préciser que Streep says she was so sure the first Devil Wears Prada needed her to be a hit that she played a little hardball with her asking price.

Les chiffres

À noter par ailleurs : this is (via Variety) according to an anecdote Streep told on Today, amidst her ongoing promotional duties for The Devil Wears Prada 2.

Plus précisément, because I’m old—I’m 56, I was ready to retire.” (Streep is now 76, and has made more than 30 movies and TV shows since she starred in the previous Prada movie, so it’s hard to gauge how sincere that “Hey, I’ll just retire” stance is, but, hey: Whatever gets that paper, right?).

Dans la foulée, the Devil Wears Prada 2 sees Miranda clash with her former assistant-turned-rival executive Emily Charlton (Emily Blunt) over limited advertising dollars in the declining world of print journalism.

À ce stade, the Devil Wears Prada 2 hits cinemas worldwide on 1 May.

Ce qui se dit

“I knew it was gonna be a hit, and I wanted to see if I doubled my ask, and they went right away and said, ‘Sure’.”

Le contexte

Reste à préciser que Meryl Streep has a pretty established reputation in the world of pop culture—not just in terms of her considerable talents as a performer, but also a sort of whimsical classiness that she seems to effortlessly project.

À noter par ailleurs : But make no mistake, readers: Meryl Streep will fuck you, if she knows your movie isn’t going to happen without Meryl Goddamn Streep.

Plus précisément, Streep said she “knew it was going to be a hit” as soon as she read the script. “I thought, it’s a great script.

Dans la foulée, Directed by David Frankel, the film followed Andrea “Andy” Sachs (played by Anne Hathaway) as she lands a job working for Miranda Priestly (Streep), the ice-cold editor of a major New York fashion magazine.

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Recherches associées

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À retenir

• The Devil Wears Prada, based on Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel of the same name, was released in 2006 to both commercial and critical success, raking in $326.7m worldwide and winning Streep a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture.
• This is (via Variety) according to an anecdote Streep told on Today, amidst her ongoing promotional duties for The Devil Wears Prada 2.
• Because I’m old—I’m 56, I was ready to retire.” (Streep is now 76, and has made more than 30 movies and TV shows since she starred in the previous Prada movie, so it’s hard to gauge how sincere that “Hey, I’ll just retire” stance is, but, hey: Whatever gets that paper, right?).
• Recherches qui explosent : Meryl Streep révèle pourquoi elle a failli ne pas jouer dans ‘Le diable s’habille en Prada’, «Le Diable s’habille en Prada 2»: Une suite inutile?, Film en débat : "Le diable sʹhabille en Prada 2" de David Frankel, Le Diable s'habille en Prada 2 : Meryl Streep et Anna Wintour en couverture de Vogue.