Meryl Streep is one of the greatest actresses to date and her signature roles will make her legacy that much greater as the years go by. One of her most iconic roles is undoubtedly Miranda Presley, from the movie The Devil Wears Prada, where she plays a very successful but calculating and work-focused woman. Apparently, the renowned actress confessed that she felt miserable playing that role.
According to Emily Blunt, it was scary, “She was amazing and also a little scary in that movie,” said the actress about Meryl Streep in the most recent episode of Variety’s ‘Actors on Actors’ series.
The 73-year-old actress, Meryl Streep informed ‘Entertainment Weekly’ that while she was “miserable” in her trailer, she could hear the rest of the film’s cast whispering and laughing.
Emily Blunt talked about the fear she felt for Meryl Streep’s character due to the fact that Streep did an excellent job with her performance, which caused her to look terrifying on the film set.
“It was horrible!”, “I was so depressed!” stated Meryl Streep. “I said to myself, ‘Well, that’s the price you have to pay for being the one in charge – that was the last time I tried anything in this method!”. Confessed the actress to ‘EW’.