Streep + Wintour Viral Chat

Vogue put Anna Wintour and Meryl Streep on the same cover on April 7, 2026, then published a Greta Gerwig-led interview tying the image directly to The Devil Wears Prada 2, which arrives in theaters on May 1, 2026. (vogue.com) (20thcenturystudios.com) That pairing lands because Streep plays Miranda Priestly, the icy editor at the center of the 2006 film, and Wintour spent 37 years as Vogue’s editor in chief before moving in 2025 to the broader Condé Nast roles of global chief content officer and artistic director. (abcnews.com) (vogue.com) The original joke of The Devil Wears Prada was always that Miranda looked a lot like a fashion-world version of Wintour, even though Lauren Weisberger never formally confirmed a one-to-one model for the character. In the new interview, Wintour leans into that old comparison and calls it “such an honor” to be played by Streep. (abcnews.com) Streep then pushes the overlap further by saying she thought “honestly about Anna” when returning to Miranda nearly 20 years later and tried to imagine the weight of Wintour’s job. That turns the shoot into more than promotion: the real editor and the fictional editor are now being sold together as one cultural package. (abcnews.com) (vogue.com) The sequel itself is built to cash in on memory. 20th Century Studios says Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci all return, with director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna also back from the 2006 film. (20thcenturystudios.com) The studio’s official synopsis says the new movie puts Miranda, Andy, Emily, and Nigel back in New York and inside Runway magazine almost 20 years later. That detail matters because the first film turned magazine offices, garment bags, and impossible bosses into pop mythology for a generation that is now old enough to feel the nostalgia hit on contact. (20thcenturystudios.com) Vogue also stacked the package with names that carry their own audiences. Annie Leibovitz shot the cover, Grace Coddington styled it, and Greta Gerwig led the conversation, which makes the feature feel less like a standard cast interview and more like a summit meeting of fashion and film power centers. (vogue.com) That is why the image traveled so fast outside fashion media. A 76-year-old actor, a 76-year-old editor, a 2006 movie, a 2026 sequel, and Vogue’s own house mythology all got compressed into one frame that people could understand in a second. (abcnews.com) (vogue.com) By the time the interview gets to family, the article has already done the job of reopening the Miranda-Wintour conversation for a new release cycle. The effect is simple: instead of asking whether The Devil Wears Prada 2 can revive an old franchise, Vogue made the sequel look like it has been sitting inside fashion culture all along. (vogue.com) (20thcenturystudios.com)