Emily Blunt is prepared for the Devil Wears Prada sequel — and the style!
Chatting with PEOPLE on the pink carpet on the American Institute for Stuttering Gala on Monday, Sept. 16, the actress, 41, briefly opened up about what she’s most enthusiastic about relating to the follow-up to the 2006 cult traditional comedy.
“It’s cool,” a smiling Blunt tells PEOPLE of returning to the franchise whereas including that she’s not totally at liberty to debate the specifics of the venture.
“Oh my God, I can’t inform you something.”
Nonetheless, the star might shed a bit of sunshine on what she’s trying ahead to within the upcoming movie.
“I simply wanna get some good eye make-up going once more,” Blunt tells PEOPLE, jokingly including that she could even get one other abdomen flu. “I’m hoping for that.”
Whereas on the American Institute for Stuttering 18th Annual Gala, Blunt explains to PEOPLE why the occasion is close to and expensive to her coronary heart.
“I am so invested,” she says. “I struggled with a stutter most of my childhood, I’ve infinite, bottomless empathy for individuals who undergo it, and that form of wrestle, and I nonetheless really feel there’s not sufficient consciousness about stuttering on the market.”
In The Satan Wears Prada, Blunt starred as Emily Charlton, the primary assistant to the tyrant of an editor, Miranda Priestly (performed by Meryl Streep), on the prestigious (and fictional) Runway journal.
Emily’s load was lightened when Andrea “Andy” Sachs (performed by Anne Hathaway) joined as an assistant — after which her place was nearly nonexistent when a abdomen flu brought on her to fall unwell and neglect essential visitor particulars at a black tie occasion.
In July, it was reported that The Satan Wears Prada can be receiving a sequel produced by Wendy Finerman and written by Aline Brosh McKenna, per Puck News.
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The movie, based mostly on the Lauren Weisberger e-book of the identical identify, went on to gross $326 million on the worldwide field workplace. Streep, 75, earned her 14th Academy Award nomination for her efficiency.
There aren’t many particulars obtainable in regards to the sequel, however based on Puck, followers might see Priestly nonetheless operating Runway journal as she tries to navigate the ever-evolving digital panorama.
Entertainment Weekly added that Hathaway, 41, Blunt, Streep and Stanley Tucci had been reportedly in discussions to reprise their characters.
The unique solid members have reunited all through the years, reminiscent of when the main women came together on the SAG Awards stage in February 2024 to announce the winner of finest male actor in a comedy sequence.
In September 2023, Hathaway and Streep posed for footage collectively on the Clooney Basis’s second annual Albie Awards.
As for Blunt, she’s credited the movie for a noticeable improve to her wardrobe.
“I didn’t know sufficient in any manner in regards to the trend trade going into that film,” she instructed Variety in November 2023 whereas taking part in a sport that examined her reminiscence of her former film scripts.
“I feel I’d simply been dressing like a teenage boy till that occurred, and I realized lots,” Blunt joked.