Meryl Streep Criticizes 'Chick Flick' Label on “Devil Wears Prada” as Sequel Nears Release
Meryl Streep Criticizes 'Chick Flick' Label on “Devil Wears Prada” as Sequel Nears Release
Jack SmartThu, April 2, 2026 at 6:38 PM UTC
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Meryl Streep on March 30Credit: Angel Delgado/Getty -
Meryl Streep appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on April 1 ahead of her sequel The Devil Wears Prada 2
The original film “was categorized as a ‘chick flick’” back in 2006 she said, a label that has “not worn well”
Female-led films like The Devil Wears Prada and Barbie “catch the studios by surprise [when] people want to see them," she said
Meryl Streep is in her blockbuster era.
Ahead of the release of long-awaited sequel The Devil Wears Prada 2 (in theaters May 1), Streep, 76, appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday, April 1 — wearing a cerulean sweater in a nod to the 2006 hit comedy set in the high-end fashion industry.
“Twenty years ago it was categorized as a ‘chick flick,’” the Oscar winner told Colbert, 61, of The Devil Wears Prada. “And that designation has kind of not worn well.”
Mentioning the critical and commercial success of Barbie and her own film Mamma Mia!, Streep said that many female-led films “catch the studios by surprise [when] people want to see them, because they have girls in the center of the story, women in the center of the story.”
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Meryl Streep and Stephen Colbert on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' on April 1Credit: Scott Kowalchyk/CBS
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Back when Streep joined Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci in the original Devil Wears Prada, the team “had to scramble for our budget," which was “true with Barbie” and director Greta Gerwig, she said.
Not so with the upcoming sequel, the Only Murders in the Building star added with a smile. “This one, honey, they spent the money.”
Streep, Hathaway, Blunt and Tucci join director David Frankel and screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna in their follow-up to 2006’s adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's novel of the same name. The Devil Wears Prada 2 will see Streep’s Miranda Priestly and Hathaway’s Andy Sachs reuniting amid changes in the modern fashion and journalism worlds.
Meryl Streep in 'The Devil Wears Prada'Credit: Cinematic / Alamy
The sequel, costarring Kenneth Branagh, Lucy Liu, Justin Theroux, B.J. Novak, Pauline Chalamet, Patrick Brammall, Caleb Hearon, Helen J. Shen and Conrad Ricamora, is in theaters May 1.
In addition to The Devil Wears Prada 2, Streep includes Netflix limited series The Corrections among her upcoming projects, per Deadline.
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