Anna Wintour may not have had an official cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2, but she still managed to leave her mark on the film.
Condé Nast’s global chief content officer, 76, visited the sequel’s Milan set, director David Frankel and screenwriter Aline Brochu McKenna told Amy O’Dell in an interview on the Back Row podcast.
Frankel filmed Winter on camera during his visit, filming what he described as a “gag take” that will be shown as bonus footage when the film is streamed.
But it wouldn’t be a polished performance – Wintour got ahead of her instructions, the shot was partially out of focus, and Frankel wasn’t going to push his luck. “I can’t ask Anna to do a take two,” he said.
Why isn’t Winter on screen? “It felt too meta for us to have her in the movie,” Frankel told Back Row.
She may not be making her acting debut in the sequel to the 2006 film that inspired her, but Wintour’s fingerprints are visible on the film. As she rolled through the fictional Dior offices played by Emily Blunt and watched from a monitor, Wintour couldn’t help but play the editor.
She focused on the flowers in the frame and decided there were too many flowers and too pink. She tells the crew that only white flowers bloom in Dior’s house.
“When I came running out, I was like, ‘Hey, kill the flowers,'” Brosh McKenna told Back Row. The pink flowers were quickly replaced by white vases.
Meta or not, Winter is totally leaning into the “Devil” reputation for the sequel.
At the 2026 Oscars ceremony in March, the Dolby Theater erupted when she and Anne Hathaway presented the costume design award in recognition of the film. Wintour recently posed on the cover of Vogue magazine alongside Meryl Streep, who plays her thinly veiled on-screen counterpart Miranda Priestly.
The sequel, which premiered in New York on Monday, will be released in theaters on May 1, just three days before Wintour hosts the Met Gala. Three of her former assistants also recently compared their real-life experiences to the series on Vogue’s podcast, “The Run-Through,” and their testimonials suggest things are in order in the props department.
