A Terrifying Role
Oh, and the producers were worried about inciting Wintour’s fury. People in the editor’s entourage abandoned The Devil Wears Prada as soon as the plot was revealed. “I had huge problems finding anyone in the fashion business who’d talk to me,” screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna told Entertainment Weekly, “because people were frightened of Anna and Vogue – not wanting to be blackballed.”
A Terrifying Role
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Too Nice
“There was one individual who spoke to me, whose name I will never reveal, who read it and remarked, ‘The people in this movie are too lovely,” she added. Nobody in the world is overly polite. They don’t have to be, and they don’t have time to be.’ I then did a pass to make everyone busier and meaner.”
Too Nice
