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Is The Devil Wears Prada still in vogue twenty years later? 3%
By Nathan Chizen0%
5/1/2026, 7:47:06 PM
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This week, The Devil Wears Prada 2 hit theatres two decades after the original’s release.
Even with the entirety of its original cast returning for the legacy sequel, critics were skeptical about the quality of one of the most anticipated movies of the year.
Today on Commotion, host Elamin Abdelmahmoud is joined by culture critics Joan Summers, Lainey Lui and Taryn Finley to discuss what works in the summer’s first big blockbuster.
We've included some highlights below, edited for length and clarity.
For the full discussion, including discussions of Megan Thee Stallion’s breakup and Kacey Musgraves’s newest album, listen and follow Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud on your favourite podcast player.
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Elamin: Meryl Streep is back.
Anne Hathaway [is] back.
But before we get to this new movie, Lainey, would [you] help us establish why the first one was such a big deal when it came out in 2006?
Lainey: So it [first] came out on a really gossipy story.
I mean, this was based on a book by a former assistant of Anna Wintour, calling her “the devil who wore Prada.”
And the book, actually, to me, wasn't that great; the movie was so much better.
And when we realized this is based on Anna Wintour — what it's like to work for her, she's the dragon lady, it's set in the world of fashion — starring legend Meryl Streep with an up-and-comer Anne Hathaway, the fashion, the quips and the lines are [now] quoted obsessively.
I think it's just one of those films that, in its time, those of us who were around to see it in the theatres were like, “I can see myself in this.”
I was also in my 20s [and] getting started in legacy media.
Back then, it did have a close-ish depiction of what it was like to work for an insane boss and the sacrifices you made.
And from there, the lore just continued 20 years later, to the point where there's [now] a huge appetite for more of these stories.
And it is the first movie of this summer blockbuster series to star women, [and is] for women and the gays; the girlies and the gays get their own superhero movie.
This is one of the big reasons why there’s so much anticipation.
Elamin: Lainey, I'm conscious of the fact that when the trailer for this movie first came out, there [was] some backlash to the portrayal of one of its Asian characters.
Some folks felt like [it] played into some [of the] tropes that people expect of Asian characters in movies.
Now that the movie's actually out, what do you make of that original backlash?
Lainey: I think people who are offended by that particular Asian character are entitled to their opinion, [but] as an East Asian person myself — as a Chinese person myself — I am not offended at all.
I love the character; I don't take issue with her name.
There's a basis to what her name is.
It’s Jin Chao.
I know many Chinese Chaos.
I understand that the name Jin is often associated with Korean people, but Chinese people can be called Jin as well.
As for her styling and the way she's presented — she went to Yale — some people are saying that's a stereotype of East Asians, going to great schools.
The joke is that she had a 3.86 GPA; the stereotype would be that no Asian parent would be proud of a 3.86 GPA.
But I will say that the missing detail is that she was a singer at Yale.
And there is no stereotype for a singing Chinese girl at an Ivy League university.
Asians are severely underrepresented on Broadway, so a musical theatre geek who is Asian in the biggest movie of the summer so far.
What stereotype?
I'm not seeing it.
She is Andy Sachs 2.0, so Anne Hathaway 2.0, and Hollywood hired an Asian girl to play [her]?
To me, that's imaginative casting.
Elamin: Joan, we talked earlier about the impact that this movie has had. 20 years later, does this movie have something to say about this moment?
Joan: I said I was initially hesitant because Meryl Streep is playing Anna Wintour, a fact the first movie was not as upfront about as it is now.
Anna Wintour famously was antagonistic towards the film, or at least negative, and this time around [she] has really embraced it.
And so I thought, “What is going to be in a movie that Anna Wintour has embraced?”
I came away from it thinking [that The Devil Wears Prada] it is still human and understanding of her legacy and the work that she puts into Vogue, but also very critical of this time in media where things are shrinking, and [feeling] like the only things that women in media are allowed to [cover] is fashion; things that at other points in my career [where] I have been like, “Does this matter?”
Like, I used to do sexual assault crime reporting, and now I'm putting clothes on a celebrity and asking them about what they eat in the morning.
And [I'm] like, “Does that matter?”
And the movie comes away from it thinking, “You know what?
Right now, as AI takes over everything and as these institutions crumble, preserving arts and human ingenuity and the ultimate pinnacle of craftsmanship in fashion, that does matter.”
There is a lot of frivolity around it, but these things take a lot of time.
The film really respects these institutions while staying super critical of them — which is what made the first movie so magical.
And I think people are gonna come away from this thinking it's [not] just a throwaway sequel that they're doing for a cash grab.
This is a sequel with something to say about the world we're living in right now.
You can listen to the full discussion from today's show on CBC Listen or on our podcast, Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, available wherever you get your podcasts.
Panel produced by Ty Callender.
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