Anna Wintour may not have an official cameo in “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” but she still managed to leave her mark on the production.
The Condé Nast global chief content officer, 76, paid a visit to the sequel’s Milan set, director David Frankel and screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna told Amy Odell in an interview for her “Back Row” podcast.
Frankel did capture Wintour on camera during the visit, shooting what he described as a “gag take” that will appear as a bonus feature when the film lands on streaming.
It won’t be a polished performance, though — Wintour got ahead of her cue, so the shot is partially out of focus, and Frankel wasn’t about to push his luck. “I can’t ask Anna to do take two,” he said.
As for why Wintour won’t appear on the big screen? “That felt too meta to us to put her in the movie,” Frankel told Back Row.
While she may not make her acting debut in the sequel to the 2006 film that was inspired by her, Wintour’s fingerprints can be seen on the film. While rolling in the fictional Dior offices where Emily Blunt’s character works, Wintour watched from the monitor and couldn’t help playing editor.
She zeroed in on the flowers in the frame — and determined there were too many, and they were too pink. The house of Dior, she informed the crew, would only ever have white flowers.
“I came running out and I was like, ‘Dude, kill the flowers,'” Brosh McKenna told Back Row. The pink blooms were promptly replaced with a single white vase.
Meta or not, Wintour has fully leaned into her “devil” reputation in the run-up to the sequel.
She and Anne Hathaway had the Dolby Theatre cracking up at the 2026 Oscars in March when they presented the award fro Best Costume Design with a nod to the film, and Wintour recently posed alongside Meryl Streep — who plays her thinly veiled onscreen counterpart, Miranda Priestly — for the cover of Vogue.
The sequel, which premiered Monday in New York, opens in theaters May 1, just three days before Wintour hosts the Met Gala. Three of her former assistants also recently compared their real-life experience to the franchise on Vogue’s “The Run-Through” podcast — and their accounts suggest the prop department got off easy.
