Overjoyed
Hathaway was overjoyed when she was cast in the role. “I remember the minute I found out I won the part, I went screaming through my apartment,” she told the tabloid. I had many people here at the time, and I simply leaped up in the living room and said, “I’m going to be in The Devil Wears Prada!” ‘” Of course, she owed it to her co-star.
White Hair
Streep also convinced the studio to let Miranda Priestley wear her hair white. According to Patricia Field, the costume designer, “Meryl told me she [wanted] to have white hair… I told Meryl, ‘I can’t convince [the filmmakers].” They are under the impression that white hair equals gray hair.'”