Meryl Streep was scary on set as icy fashion queen Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada, her co-star says.
Emily Blunt, appearing with Andy Cohen on SiriusXM’s Front Row, shared that the Oscar-winning actress got so deeply into the character that she was “pretty scared” at first.
Her comments came in response to a question from the host about whether Streep was invited to perform.
“I mean, at first, I was quite scared because I felt like you were in a zone,” says the Oppenheimer actress.
Hearing the reaction, Streep says, “Oh, yes. I was in that zone.”
As Blunt points out in the answer, it’s not just one area; Instead, it was a full-blown Snooty Zone take on Streep’s runway editor role, of which she is known: “She was in the Miranda Zone.”
“Not impenetrable, but we can come over and tell you a funny story, but you won’t be able to have your extraordinary laugh that I normally hear,” she adds.
Since the focus of the conversation was on Streep’s portrayal of Miranda Priestly, host Cohen eventually asked if it was hard to do the full-on method.
“No,” the actress adds. “The first three days I went and wandered around the camera with the director, you know, and then we proceeded to do the scene, and I went, you know, ‘This’, and they went… It was just like a deletion. A little deletion. The authority, the thing.”
The Devil Wears Prada 2 hits theaters May 1.
