Meryl Streep quote goes viral
A post quoting Meryl Streep — “There would be no fashion in the world without the LGBTQ community” — has been widely shared and racked up large engagement on X, signalling a burst of fashion‑culture conversation (x.com). The post amassed tens of thousands of likes and several thousand reposts in under 24 hours (x.com).
A Meryl Streep line about fashion and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer community spread quickly across X on April 12, as fan and entertainment accounts pushed the clip into wider circulation. (gmanetwork.com) The quote came from a Tokyo interview with Filipino creator Mimiyuuuh, who asked Streep and Anne Hathaway about support from Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer audiences for *The Devil Wears Prada* and its sequel. Streep answered, “There would be no fashion in the world without the LGBT community,” and Hathaway said the sequel would not exist without that support. (gmanetwork.com) The exchange landed as 20th Century Studios prepares to release *The Devil Wears Prada 2* in theaters on May 1, 2026. The studio says Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci are returning. (20thcenturystudios.com, 20thcenturystudios.com) The original *The Devil Wears Prada* opened in the United States on June 30, 2006, and took in about $326.7 million worldwide, turning a workplace comedy set in fashion media into a long-running pop-culture reference point. (boxofficemojo.com, 20thcenturystudios.com) That history helps explain why a short press-line answer traveled so far: the film has spent nearly 20 years sitting at the intersection of celebrity, office satire, magazine culture, and fashion fantasy. The sequel campaign has now put those themes back into daily circulation. (deadline.com, 20thcenturystudios.com) Streep’s remark also echoed a documented reality of fashion history, where many designers, stylists, editors, photographers, and image-makers who shaped modern runway culture have been gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or queer. Mainstream fashion coverage and museum scholarship have long treated that overlap as foundational rather than incidental. (metmuseum.org, vam.ac.uk) The clip’s spread was accelerated by aggregation accounts that routinely turn interview fragments into standalone posts. One of the largest reposts came from Film Updates, the entertainment news account cited in follow-on coverage of the quote’s reach. (filmupdates.net, gmanetwork.com) What circulated, in other words, was not just a celebrity sound bite. It was a campaign-season line from the star of a 2006 fashion landmark, delivered days before a sequel release, and attached to a subject the industry has been debating in public for decades. (20thcenturystudios.com, metmuseum.org)
