{"id":2373109,"date":"2026-04-14T16:55:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2373109"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:55:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:55:46","slug":"simone-ashley-talks-the-devil-wears-prada-2-and-female-empowerment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/simone-ashley-talks-the-devil-wears-prada-2-and-female-empowerment\/","title":{"rendered":"Simone Ashley Talks ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ and Female Empowerment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tIf you ask Simone Ashley<\/a> what it was like to work on the set of \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2,\u201d<\/a> she\u2019ll tell you she felt like a sponge.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEvery single day I was soaking something up,\u201d she said, in conversation with WWD ahead of the May 1 premiere. \u201cTo be in the company of incredible women like Emily [Blunt], Anne [Hathaway]<\/a>, Meryl [Streep] <\/a>and Aline Brosh McKenna, our writer and one of the producers, and all the women behind this movie, every day I was learning something, whether it would be just observing how they held themselves on set, how they worked through their craft, what they believe in, what they stand for and the kind of message they want to give out to the world.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s this kind of female-driven ecosystem that invigorates and inspires her, within the industry and beyond. \u201cI think all of us, especially as women, you\u2019re always going to experience different challenges in personal life or in your work life. It\u2019s not what happens to you, it\u2019s what you do with it. And I\u2019d like to think that challenges that come my way, I really try to see them as a lesson and how to grow from that,\u201d she continued. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs a long-standing L\u2019Or\u00e9al Paris ambassador, Ashley is parroting the same sentiment in its new Missed Opportunities campaign, which spotlights the ways in which street harassment impacts women daily. In honor of Anti-Street Harassment Week, the brand is encouraging its consumers, men and women, to take part in a Stand Up training program \u2014 a 10-minute video on \u201cthe Right To Be\u2019 5Ds methodology\u201d designed to empower bystander intervention. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cOn a personal level, I think we have all experienced some level of street harassment,\u201d Ashley said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m just really proud to be part of something where we\u2019re encouraging women to stand up for themselves and what to do in situations where they might observe street harassment or they personally feel like they\u2019re a victim of it.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tRecognizing that strength and confidence go hand-in-hand with the ability to intervene, Ashley emphasized the importance of personal wellness<\/a> and maintaining a healthy routine. Her regimen typically centers around exercise, sleep and hydration. But when she was filming \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2\u201d in New York City, she also made it a point to prioritize spending time with friends who fill her cup. \u201cA big part of my self care was just making sure I was having fun and being with my friends, exploring and experiencing New York,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe discipline she held during this time is similar to that of her character, Amari, who serves as the new first assistant to Miranda Priestley, played by Streep. \u201cEverything else, I would say, me and that character can be quite different. But it was fun to play someone that held themselves in such a fabulous way, esthetically, and all those different kind of ways in the world of Runway,\u201d Ashley teased. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If you ask Simone Ashley what it was like to work on the set of \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada 2,\u201d she\u2019ll tell you she felt like a sponge. \u201cEvery single day I was soaking something up,\u201d she said, in conversation with WWD ahead of the May 1 premiere. \u201cTo be in the company of incredible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2373110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[461676,24734,347587],"class_list":["post-2373109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-lu2019oru00e9al","tag-trending","tag-wellness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Simone-Ashley-Talks-The-Devil-Wears-Prada-2-and-Female.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2373109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373111,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373109\/revisions\/2373111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2373110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}