Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep Have the Ultimate Devil Wears Prada Reunion

Gird up your loins because Thursday’s Albie Awards include one big fashion gathering.

The second annual Clooney Foundation for Justice event featured an esteemed who’s who of celebrities, including exes Devin Wear’s Prada actresses Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep — who reunited 17 years after the release of the beloved film.

Both were grinning from ear to ear as they made the announcement together at the ceremony, which the foundation says honors “courageous individuals who, at great personal risk, have dedicated their lives to justice.”

Neither wore blue-red. Instead, Hathaway, 40, wore a light green, shimmering strapless floor-length Versace dress with a silver check pattern and floral appliqués down the front. She accessorized the dress with a silver purse and wore her hair half up and half down. A diamond necklace, matching earrings and other silver jewelry added extra sparkle to her look.

Streep, 74, was equally radiant in a shimmering black sweater adorned with gold embellishments. She combined it with top black pants and formal shoes.

Photographers captured the two former stars embracing each other.

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They weren’t the only ones The devil wears Prada alums at the event, either. Emily Blunt, 40, who was also in attendance along with her husband John Krasinski.

She wore an elegant red Zuhair Murad sleeveless dress with a neckline and heart-shaped pockets on the hips. Krasinski remained classic in a black tuxedo with a white shirt and black bow tie.

In the 2006 film — an adaptation of Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel of the same name — Hathaway played aspiring young journalist Andy Sachs, who lands a job as an assistant for Runway magazine editor Miranda Priestly (Streep).

Blunt played Emily Charlton, Miranda’s first assistant.

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Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt in the movie “The Devil Wears Prada”.

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The devil wears Prada directed by David Frankel and starring Stanley Tucci, Adrian Grenier and Simon Baker. In addition to earning $326 million worldwide, Streep also received an Oscar nomination.

In the years since the film’s release, Hathaway and Streep have remained friendly, posing together for both films in 2009. vanity fair After Party of the Oscars and on the red carpet of the Oscars 2014.

In 2021, Frankel, 64, spoke about the role Streep played in securing Hathaway’s role in the film.

“Meryl was anxious to do the movie and she said, ‘Let me meet her,'” Frankel said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly which included some of the actors. “Brokeback Mountain should have come out. Annie had a wonderful, small role in it. And Meryl saw that scene from the movie and met with her and called Tom Rothman at Fox and said, ‘Yeah, this girl is great, and I think we’re going to work well together.'”

Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway in the movie ‘The Devil Wears Prada’.

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According to Frankel, before Hathaway got the part, Rachel McAdams was offered the role three times. Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, Kate Hudson and Kirsten Dunst were considered.

Hathaway said that after finding out she got the part, “it was the easiest yes in the world.”

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“I remember the moment I found out I got the part, I just ran through my apartment screaming,” she said. “I had a bunch of friends at the time. I just jumped into the living room and screamed, ‘I’ll be in The devil wears Prada!’ “

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