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\t\tAline Brosh McKenna talks to City AM about writing The Devil Wears Prada 2\t<\/p>\n\t\t\tThursday 14 May 2026 4:24 am
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\t\tAline Brosh McKenna talks to City AM about writing The Devil Wears Prada 2\t<\/p>\n
Aline Brosh McKenna wrote the screenplay for The Devil Wears Prada 2. She talks to Adam Bloodworth about writing the ultimate corporate rom-com<\/p>\n
The Devil Wears Prada 2\u2019s screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna vividly recalls her first impression of hard work. <\/p>\n
When she was young, she remembers her engineer father crawling around on the floor to adjust complicated circuitboards, hoping each obsessive tweak would lead to his next breakthrough invention. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe had a real love for work,\u201d says McKenna. \u201cIt\u2019s a tribute to my dad that he didn\u2019t moderate his message for a daughter differently than a son.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her upbringing instilled in her a natural aptitude for work, but also for writing about the idea of it. Morning Glory and I Don\u2019t Know How She Does It are two of the screenwriter\u2019s corporate-themed films, and she says she has always found the idea of writing about the workplace fascinating. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a certain kind of intimacy you don\u2019t get anywhere else,\u201d she says, \u201cbut there are also boundaries you don\u2019t have in your personal relationships.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rather than the one her father tinkered with, it was the circuit board of New York City that became McKenna\u2019s obsession when in 2006 she wrote the screenplay for Lauren Weisberger\u2019s novel The Devil Wears Prada. <\/p>\n
Devil Wears Prada 2 writer: tech bros are a lot of odd folks<\/p>\n
Twenty years later, her Devil Wears Prada 2 script has reintroduced the beloved characters into an era anew.<\/p>\n
This newspaper was one of dozens to give the movie a four-star review<\/a>, and that is in no small part due to McKenna\u2019s script, which follows magazine editor Miranda Priestly and her beleagueured assistant-cum-journalist Andy Sachs struggling in a new era of AI interference and a failing print magazine industry. <\/p>\n Of course, there are Meryl Streep\u2019s pithy one-liners, but The Devil Wears Prada 2 also presents a realistic picture of where Miranda Priestly, Sachs, frenemy Emily Charlton, and the whole gang, might be today.<\/p>\n It isn\u2019t the frocks or the romance subplots that linger in the mind, though, but the theme of the workplace. How work defines us but also how we are being let down by it. There is a line at the end of the movie where Meryl Streep \u2013 compelling as ever \u2013 delivers a sort of homage to corporate life. <\/p>\n \u201cI just love working,\u201d she says. \u201cDon\u2019t you?\u201d Amid justifiable grumbles about cost of living crises and a lack of jobs pervading nearly every sector, it is perversely refreshing to hear a corporate rallying call. All the while, the tensions between ambition, opportunity and purposeful journalism versus a drive for clicks remain.<\/p>\n \u2018There\u2019s the feeling that work brings joy\u2019 \u201cYoung people are being told that it\u2019s an incredibly Darwiniann world,\u201d says Brosh McKenna. \u201cIf you can\u2019t justify work in very specific metrics \u2013 dollars, cents, clicks, engagements \u2013 then it\u2019s not worth doing.\u201d<\/p>\n Academy Award-winning Meryl Streep worked with Brosh McKenna to sculpt her killer lines. Some of them were ad-libbed, including that memorable monologue about loving to work no matter the cost. <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tRead more<\/p>\n \t\t\tAnne Hathaway\u2019s \u2018extremely funny\u2019 axed scene from Devil Wears Prada 2<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI think Meryl said \u2018I love my job\u2019 the first time, then she changed it to \u2018I love to work,\u2019\u201d she remembers of how the line came together. \u201cI walked over and was like: \u2018that\u2019s great.\u2019 it just was so perfect. There\u2019s this core feeling that work brings joy that I think pervades the whole movie and is sort of encapsulated by that line.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Meryl](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Devil-Wears-Prada-2-review-Meryl-Streep-Anne-Hathaway.png\")
The Devil Wears Prada 2 is in cinemas now<\/p>\n