{"id":238179,"date":"2026-05-03T16:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/is-this-the-devil-wears-prada-post-where-meryl-streep-turned-down-the-first-film-yes-it-is\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T16:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:10:17","slug":"is-this-the-devil-wears-prada-post-where-meryl-streep-turned-down-the-first-film-yes-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/is-this-the-devil-wears-prada-post-where-meryl-streep-turned-down-the-first-film-yes-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the&#8230;.Devil Wears Prada post where Meryl Streep turned down the first film? Yes, it is."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Meryl Streep rejected &#8220;The Devil Wears Prada&#8221; at first so that she could ask for double her salary: &#8220;They needed me&#8230; if they didn\u2019t want to do that, I was okay. I was ready to retire.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew it was going to be a hit. I read the script \u2014 the script was great. They called me\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JOwX3m1cgg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/JOwX3m1cgg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/2049585512583733304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 29, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-Devil Wears Prada 2 is officially out and Meryl reflected on the first film.<\/p>\n<p>-She loved the script. Knew it would be a hit. But when they offered her the role she turned it down because she wanted more money. &#8220;I knew it was going to be a hit, The script was great. They called me up, and they made an offer, and I said, &#8216;No. I&#8217;m not going to do it.&#8217; I wanted to see if I doubled my ask \u2014 and they went right away and said, &#8216;Sure. I thought, &#8216;I&#8217;m 56. It took me this long to understand that I could do that, They needed me, I felt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-She would go on to make $4million for the film.<\/p>\n<p>-The sequel is currently on track to open at $100million + globally on a $100mill budget<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/2049585512583733304\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Source<\/a><br \/><br \/>It was a good movie. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132293423.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meryl Streep rejected &#8220;The Devil Wears Prada&#8221; at first so that she could ask for double her salary: &#8220;They needed me&#8230; if they didn\u2019t want to do that, I was okay. I was ready to retire.&#8221; \u201cI knew it was going to be a hit. I read the script \u2014 the script was great. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-238179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}