{"id":641046,"date":"2026-04-30T17:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/641046\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:56:09","slug":"meryl-streeps-power-move-before-accepting-role-in-the-devil-wears-prada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/641046\/","title":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep\u2019s power move before accepting role in The Devil Wears Prada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meryl Streep is one of the most decorated film stars in Hollywood, with an impressive career now spanning almost five decades, but it took producers knocking on her door to star in The Devil Wears Prada for her to truly realise her worth.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview while on the promo trail for the film\u2019s highly-anticipated sequel, the three-time Academy Award winner revealed the role of Miranda Priestly was one she almost rejected. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/popculture\/movies\/meryl-streep-devil-wears-prada-doubled-salary-rcna342723\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Today, <\/a>together with her The Devil Wears Prada 2 co-stars Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci, the 76-year-old said she played hard ball when she was offered the role. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew it was going to be a hit. I read the script, the script was great. They called me up, and they made an offer, and I said \u2018No. I\u2019m not going to do it,\u2019\u201d she told the stunned host. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to see if I doubled my ask, and they went right away and said \u2018Sure.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The amount she was offered was reportedly $US2 million ($A2.8 million) and calling their bluff bumped it right up to an impressive $US4 million ($A5.6 million) \u2013 a power move that Streep confessed had taken her decades of success in Hollywood to make. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m 56 years old \u2013 it took me this long to understand that I could do that! I was sure of it. I was sure it would be a hit. And they needed me, I felt,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I wanted it, but if they didn\u2019t want to do that, I was okay. Because I\u2019m old \u2013 I\u2019m 56, I was ready to retire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, the comment about the film \u201cneeding\u201d her didn\u2019t offend any of her co-stars \u2013 who all seemed to nod and agree with her bold statement. <\/p>\n<p>Streep isn\u2019t the only star of the sequel who has revealed that they almost didn\u2019t take a role in the famous flick. <\/p>\n<p>Colin From Accounts star Patrick Brammall, who stars as Andy\u2019s (Hathaway) new love interest in the follow-up film, revealed this week that he <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/entertainment\/movies\/aussie-star-patrick-brammall-shocks-fans-with-devil-wears-prada-2-confession\/news-story\/ad3d4b54962d463c5ba7f8510056be69\" target=\"_blank\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"ad3d4b54962d463c5ba7f8510056be69\" data-tgev-label=\"entertainment\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">initially turned down the opportunity to audition<\/a> for the role, but landed the gig anyway. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey asked for self tape. So you set up your phone, or if you\u2019ve got something slightly fancier \u2026 then you set up your lighting, and you try and get it all right. You spend half a day trying to get this thing right. You send off the tape, and then you never hear back. I mean, 99 per cent of the time you hear nothing. It\u2019s not like people call and go \u2018great tape, but we\u2019re going a different way\u2019. You just hear nothing,\u201d he shared on air on Nova 96.9\u2019s Ricki-Lee &amp; Tim. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how many guys had to fall over for me to Stephen Bradbury my way into this film,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral other guys died or something and they called me and offered it to me straight up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meryl Streep is one of the most decorated film stars in Hollywood, with an impressive career now spanning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-641046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}