By no means has an actress felt so grateful not to be the lead.
As a result of greater than a decade-and-a-half later, Tracie Thoms can nonetheless recall the fear she felt when Meryl Streep spoke these first intently hushed phrases at The Devil Wears Prada desk learn. “We may barely hear her,” stated Thoms, forged as grad pupil Lily, the loyal, tell-it-like-it-is greatest buddy to Anne Hathaway‘s Andy Sachs.
At first, Thoms defined to E! Information, she thought the Oscar winner was merely getting by way of the fabric, nonetheless formulating how she needed to play unapologetically demanding Runway editor Miranda Priestly, a not-all-that-loose interpretation of Vogue‘s Anna Wintour. “Some actors after they get to desk reads, they’re nonetheless ready to do the exploration technique of the character,” she famous. “So they don’t seem to be attempting to make selections early.”
However, “perhaps, a page-and-a-half in,” Thoms stated of the script, tailored from Lauren Weisberger‘s wildly standard novel of the identical identify, “I used to be like, ‘Oh, no. That is the selection. Oh my god, that is essentially the most genius factor I’ve ever seen in my life.’ As a result of it made all people on the desk need to lean into her, to Miranda.”