Celebrity stylist Leslie Fremar is coming forward as the inspiration for the character of Emily in The Devil Wears Prada.
The role was famously played by Emily Blunt in the first film, and she’ll be back in the second film as well.
Leslie disclosed on Vogue‘s The Run-Through, “No, I know I am. I am Emily.”
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Lauren Weisberger, who wrote the original book, was one of Anna Wintour‘s junior assistants, and was hired by Leslie. They apparently worked together for 8 months.
“I definitely told her a million girls would kill for the job. That was definitely my line because I actually really believed that, and I knew that she didn’t necessarily wanna be there,” Leslie said. If you don’t know, that’s an iconic line from the first film.
When the book was published in 2003, she met up with Anna Wintour. “I got a call from Anna‘s office saying that she wanted to see me. I was petrified. [Anna] said, ‘Who’s Lauren Weisberger? And I said, ‘She was your junior assistant. And she’s like, ‘Well, she wrote a book about us, and you’re worse than me,’” Leslie explained. “I wanted to, like, ask more questions, but you can’t really ask her that many questions.”
About the book getting published, Leslie said, “It just felt like this exposure. Even though someone obviously advised her to make it fiction, it was really based off of a lot of things that, you know, I lived, she lived.”
Leslie recalled working with Lauren: “I probably was not very nice, and I probably was high-strung because I felt like I was having to do her job as well. So for me, that was really frustrating. I think she was probably just sitting there writing a book and not necessarily taking the job as seriously as I did.”
“We never talked again after she left,” she added.
Leslie also said she once told Emily Blunt this information, but Emily didn’t seem interested. “I said to her, I was like, ‘I just need to let you know, I’m Emily.’ She was not that interested, to be honest. I thought I was gonna get this, like, huge reaction. Like, no. It was like, ‘Oh, okay,’” she recalled.
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