A Terrifying Role
Oh, and the filmmakers were also worried of angering Wintour. As soon as knowledge of the plot came out, people in the editor’s circle backed away from The Devil Wears Prada. Screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna told Entertainment Weekly, “I had enormous trouble finding anyone in the fashion world who’d talk to me. [That’s] because people were afraid of Anna and Vogue – not wanting to be blackballed.”
A Terrifying Role
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Too Nice
She went on to say, “There was one person who spoke to me, whose name I will never divulge, who read it and said, ‘The people in this movie are too nice. No one in that world is too nice. They don’t have to be, and they don’t have time to be.’ After that, I did a pass to make everyone a bit busier and meaner.”
Too Nice
