Meryl Streep explains how she convinced Lady Gaga to join ‘The Devil Wears Prada II’
The actress, who is reprising her role for the second installment of the film, revealed that she had teamed up with director David Frankel to ask Lady Gaga to be a part of the new film.
Speaking during an appearance on Heart Breakfast, Streep told co-star Emily Blunt: “I rang her from Islington because I was out for dinner with Tracy. And I thought, I might as well try her.”
“I just said, ‘Would you do it? Because it’s going to be really cool. And she said, ‘Yeah!’ Streep said, snapping her fingers. “Just like that. She’s on her world tour, which lasted a year, played to 75,000 people in a stadium and just flew over and showed us.”
Blunt then added: “I think he’s a creative hurricane.”
Frankel then shared: “We wrote a pop star in sequence.”
He added: “They’re doing this whole show in Milan, and there was this line in the script where a pop star performs.”
“So when we went to the studio to talk about who this pop star should be and they said, ‘You don’t really need anyone. Your movies are so interesting without…'” the director recalled. “And I said, ‘No, no, no, we need a pop star.’ And they said, ‘Well, we think there’s only one person worth starring in the movie and that’s Gaga.’
