“I cannot remember who that girl is.”
At one point, Bee turned to her and said, ‘Mom, they really got you.'"
“When it was over, I made the effort to introduce myself,” he remembered.
Meryl Streep in ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ and ‘Vogue’ EIC Anna Wintour.Moviestore/Shutterstock; Mireya Acierto/Getty
Anna has said to friends, ‘I’m so bored by me.’
This is one reason she doesn’t plan to ever write a memoir.
Norwich explained, ‘She doesn’t want to stop working to reflect.'"
Anne Hathaway takes Meryl Streep’s coat in ‘The Devil Wears Prada.'.Barry Wetcher/20th Century Studios
So I was 100 percent behind it,“she said at the time.
“Not at all.
I felt like some people were surprised [by my appearance],” she said at the time.
‘Anna: The Biography’ book cover.Gallery Books, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
“I really wanted to ensure I looked nothing like myself.
I wanted the glasses because I didn’t want people to know I was there.
If I was a really good actress, they’d forget I was Gisele!”
We went for weeks being unable to secure locations!
No one in that world is too nice.
They don’t have to be, and they don’t have time to be.’
After that, I did a pass to make everyone a bit busier and meaner.”
Anna: The Biographyisavailable now.
Read the fullDevil Wears Pradaexcerpt from the book below.
Excerpt from Anna: The Biography by Amy Odell
Copyright 2022 by Amy Odell.
Reprinted by permission of Gallery Books, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
The Untold Story ofThe Devil Wears Prada
Around Christmas of 1999, Lauren Weisberger rolled into the Vogue office.
She had just graduated from Cornell, and editor-in-chief Anna Wintour decided to hire her as her assistant.
Assisting Anna wasn’t about being a journalist, it was about delivering hot lattes quickly in high heels.
He was amenable and she went with him.
Reading her material, Story later told her to get writing lessons.
The first week of February 2003,The Devil Wears Pradawas published.
But along with many of her colleagues, Anna did read it.
“I know Anna read it and she was sort of bemused.
She wasn’t offended.
She wasn’t bothered by it at all,” said Jones.
Anna has said to friends, “I’m so bored by me.”
This is one reason she doesn’t plan to ever write a memoir.
Norwich explained, “She doesn’t want to stop working to reflect.”
Director David Frankel was adamant that he wouldn’t participate in an Anna Wintour takedown.
If that’s what it takes, that’s what it takes."
That, of course, was not how the book framed things.
But no matter what Frankel said, Anna wasas she was for the bookundeniably the inspiration.
Gisele Bundchen ended up as the beauty editor after clearing the appearance with Vogue.
Designers were terrified to loan clothes to the costume designer, Patricia Field of Sex and the City fame.
The Devil Wears Prada premiered on June 30, 2006.
(This wasn’t unusual, as she often wore Prada dresses, customized just for her.)
Frankel sat behind Anna and Bee.
At one point, Bee turned to her and said, “Mom, they really got you.”
The impact the movie had on her image was incalculable.
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