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Only five weeks to go before The Devil Wears Prada 2 opens in theatres and the press tour has officially kicked off in Mexico City with Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. Both of these women are professionals, and they are deeply aware of what this movie means to the original generation that saw the first movie when it came out and subsequent generations that have found it in their own time. They also, as women in the entertainment industry, who have made a sequel specifically for a female and queer audience, which has never been prioritised in Hollywood, understand the significance of fronting a film opening the first weekend in May, known as the first weekend of summer blockbuster season.<\/p>\n
But also? It\u2019s fun. It\u2019s fun to be promoting a movie where the working relationships and rivalries among women are centered \u2013 plus, of course, FASHION.<\/p>\n
This press tour was always, always going to be a fashion show; a runway, and this is on the nose, obviously but\u2026 like\u2026 how can you not?<\/p>\n
For the media event earlier in the day, Meryl was in a perfectly tailored red suit (D&G) alongside Anne in Schiaparelli.<\/p>\n
Then at the fan event later on, it was Meryl\u2019s turn in a Schiaparelli trench dress, SO chic, while Annie went with a dark red sequined Stella McCartney swing dress. Yes, that\u2019s THE Meryl Streep, working the runway, her way.<\/p>\n
But Devil 2 isn\u2019t the only movie about fashion that Anne Hathaway is promoting over the next few weeks. Mother Mary actually comes out first. So she\u2019s doing double promotion \u2013 yesterday she posted a behind-the-scenes video from one of the performance scenes in the film. This is Annie as Mother Mary, the ultimate popstar who needs her old friend, Michaela Coel, to make her a dress.<\/p>\n
The trailer for Mother Mary came out in December and while the film does not carry the same expectations as The Devil Wears Prada 2, there\u2019s already been some buzz about whether or not Annie\u2019s performance might result in an Oscar nomination. I know, it\u2019s early, but that\u2019s not the entire conversation \u2013 because Devil 2 and Mother Mary are just two of several Anne Hathaway projects that we\u2019re getting in 2026, so we\u2019re talking about an extraordinary showcase of her range over the next nine months.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve talked about how much Zendaya we\u2019ll be getting this year but we have not talked yet about how much Annie is coming. Mother Mary and The Devil Wears Prada 2 will precede Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey, one of the most highly anticipated films of the year, setting advance ticket sales records a whole year before its release. That\u2019s July. A month later, in August, Annie will be promoting The End of Oak Street, produced by JJ Abrams. The first teaser dropped last week.<\/p>\n