Kate Hudson admitted on the “Capital Breakfast” radio show (via Entertainment Weekly) that turning down “The Devil Wears Prada” was “a bad call.” Before Anne Hathaway was cast as Andrea “Andy” Sachs, director David Frankel met with the likes of Hudson, Rachel McAdams, Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman and Kirsten Dunst.
“That was a bad call. It was a timing thing, it was one of those things where I couldn’t do it, and I should’ve made it happen, and I didn’t,” Hudson said, all these years later. “That was one where when I saw it I was like, ‘Ugh.’”
Hudson maintained that “everything happens for a reason,” but she still admitted that she “should’ve made that work.” The movie, which was a box office hit with $327 million and a two-time Oscar nominee, remains one of Hathaway’s most iconic roles.
“It’s funny. It’s waves of things that are happening and people shooting at different times,” Hudson said. “It’s not like you don’t do them because you don’t want to do them. It’s like, ‘Oh, you’re doing something else.’ And it just sucked, you know?”
David Frankel previously told Entertainment Weekly that the studio behind “The Devil Wears Prada” was not initially open to casting Hathaway in the lead role. “We offered it to Rachel McAdams three times,” he revealed. “The studio was determined to have her, and she was determined not to do it.”
News broke last year that Disney is developing a sequel to the hit 2006 movie. The original film’s screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” “Your Place or Mine”) is in talks to return to pen the next chapter. The storyline reportedly follows Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly as she navigates her career amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing and faces off against Emily Blunt’s character, now a high-powered executive for a luxury group with advertising dollars that Priestly desperately needs.
