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Anne Hathaway told The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em> producers not to cast models that were “so skeletal,” Meryl Streep told Harper’s Bazaar<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Of her costar, Streep added: “She’s a stand-up girl”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Streep also admitted that she was “unnerved” by the frenzy around the filming of the sequel last summer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Anne Hathaway<\/a>\u00a0had a special request for the producers of The Devil Wears Prada 2<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar<\/em><\/a> published on Wednesday, March 25, Hathaway, 43, recalled that making the 2006 film took a bit of work to get fashion brands on board. But Meryl Streep<\/a>\u00a0emphasized that this time around, she and the cast were given the opportunity to attend \u201cactual fashion shows during Milan Fashion Week.\u201d<\/p>\n Streep, 76, said she was “struck by how not only beautiful and young \u2014 everyone seems young to me \u2014 but alarmingly thin the models were.”<\/p>\n “I thought that all had been addressed years ago. Annie clocked it too,\u201d the Oscar winner continued, “and she made a beeline to the producers about it, securing promises that the models in the show that we were putting together for our film would not be so skeletal!”<\/p>\n Streep added of Hathaway, “She\u2019s a stand-up girl.”<\/p>\n Elsewhere in the interview, Streep admitted she was “unnerved” by the frenzy<\/a> around the filming of the sequel.<\/p>\n \u201cEven though we were aware of the impact of the first film two decades ago, I think none of us were prepared for the ambush of both goodwill and avid attention that engulfed us,\u201d the actress, who portrays cutthroat fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly in the films, told the outlet. \u201cWe needed police barriers and crowd control.\u201d<\/p>\n