Savannah Guthrie is recalling the one time she felt “jealous” of Jenna Bush Hager.
“I mean, people have loved Devil Wears Prada 2. Are you breathing a huge sigh of relief? … How good does that feel?” Guthrie, 54, asked Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor during a Monday, June 1, interview on the Today show.
Hathaway, 43, replied, “I think what you just said about the huge sigh of relief because we love it too, and we didn’t wanna come back and disappoint everybody. But the way that it’s been embraced, to the level that it has, has been overwhelming and beyond any of our wildest dreams.”
When asked whether there might be a third The Devil Wears Prada, Hathaway responded, “I hope so!”
“OK and then, can I get a cameo?” Guthrie asked. “Because Jenna Bush Hager got a cameo in 2, and it is the first and only time in our friendship that I’ve been jealous.”
Bush Hager, 44, appeared in the second installment of the hit film, in which she portrays one of the media personalities Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) invites to the Hamptons while working with Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) to help Runway Magazine navigate the changing media landscape.
While the cast did press for the second film, Bush Hager shared that she had the opportunity to interview them due to her cameo.
“I got the interview because the summer before, I was an extra (blink and you’ll miss me!) in the film,” Bush Hager wrote on her Substack in May. “On that July day, the sun beat down on me, exasperating my nervous sweat. As soon as I arrived, the LOVELY director David Frankel made an announcement: ‘Meryl, Anne and Jenna..’ Jenna?? I am not an actor. I was out of place. It lasted ten minutes but we improvised a scene. It was scary and it was fun. Another moment of wild out-of-body bravery.”
In the second film, Andy and Miranda are also seen reconnecting with Emily Charlton (Emily Blunt) for help recreating the Runway Magazine brand. For Streep, conversations about a sequel began occurring as early as 2009 — three years after the original film hit theaters.
“They started talking about a sequel, but we all waited until we had that good idea,” Streep recalled during a May conversation on Bush Hager’s “Open Book with Jenna” podcast, to which Blunt added, “I think we all had to do it as well, that you got to have all four of us come back. There were mutterings and rumblings for years.”
“Lots of ideas, yeah,” Streep continued. “But it’s almost like the world had to shift in that way for Aline [Brosh McKenna], who wrote the original, to get a new idea that made sense. These people had to confront what’s going on, in the world of journalism and publishing and politics, everything. … Everything has kind of flipped. And that’s cool, that that had a story embedded in it.”
