Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt, protagonists of The Devil Wears Prada 2shared anecdotes about the most painful moments they faced at the beginning of their careers as actresses.
From abusive comments to endless repetitions of scenesthe artists they reported to People some of the criticism hardest they received throughout their lives.
Blunt recalled a director who made her repeat a small part of a scene about 15 times. and, when he finished, he told him: “You had it, but it’s already gone.” The British actress asked him what had left, but he only insisted: “Yes, actually it’s already gone.”
“I was like: ‘What’s gone? My performance, my career? What?’” he said.
Hathaway, for her part, recalled that at the age of 8 she received an acting class for commercials where she pleased everyone and made them laugh, which made her feel happy. However, The joy ended when her teacher told her that she would always have a job “because you are not pretty, but you are peculiar.”
“I only remember the wave of shame”described the Oscar winner.
When the turn comes Streep remembered her teenage years. When she was 15, her father took her to several college interviews and, in one of them, the dean asked her what she had read that summer, but when she answered Carl Jung, The professor corrected her on the pronunciation of the Swiss philosopher’s surname.
“I remember thinking, ‘Why did my mood get low?‘”, he said.
The conversation between the artists and People arose around the promotion of the film The Devil Wears Prada 2which premieres this Thursday, April 30 worldwide and on May 1 in the United States.
In the production, the three actresses reprise their roles from the first installment: Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, editor-in-chief of the fictional magazine runway; Anne Hathaway returns as Andy Sachs, now the publication’s special features editor; and Emily Blunt returns as Emily Charlton, Priestly’s former assistant turned fashion mogul.