The Devil Wears Prada 2 star Lucy Liu is confident that the long-awaited movie will live up to audience expectations.
Lucy Liu has teased that The Devil Wears Prada 2 will be “everything that everyone wants it to be”.
The 57-year-old actress will feature in the ensemble cast of the much-anticipated follow-up to the 2006 movie and claims that it is “impossible” to describe the sequel, which is slated for release in May, in just a single word.
Speaking to People at the TIME Women of the Year Gala, Lucy said: “Well, I would say it’s going to be everything that everyone wants it to be.”
The Charlie’s Angels star joins the returning Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci in the sequel and revealed last year that she had had a “great time” working on the film.
Lucy said: “I had a great time and it was really fun, and it’s always nice to be part of something that people are excited about and that’s connected to fashion.
“Fashion can be so many things – it can be political, and it can be whimsical. That, to me, is what’s fun about a movie like that, that’s more classic than you would think.”
The original flick – which is based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Lauren Weisberger – followed Hathaway as an aspiring journalist who starts working for formidable Runway magazine boss Miranda Priestly (Streep).
The sequel is believed to take up the story as Priestly deals with issues relating to the decline in magazine publishing and faces off with her former assistant Emily Charlton (Blunt), who is now a high-powered executive at a luxury fashion group in control of much-needed advertising revenue that could save the publication.
David Frankel – who directed the 2006 film – is back on board for the sequel along with screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna.
Meanwhile, Justin Theroux, B.J. Novak, Pauline Chalamet, Sir Kenneth Branagh, Patrick Brammall, Caleb Hearon and Broadway stars Helen J. Shen and Conrad Ricamora all feature in the cast.
Blunt previously suggested that the original movie is a “nostalgia bank” for viewers.
The 43-year-old star told ELLE magazine: “The movie now is like a nostalgia bank for people.
“People have watched that movie 50 times. They’ve watched it with a sick parent; they’ve watched it when they go through a breakup. It has been a source of comfort and escapism. And the movie is really incredible as well. I think it’s a beautiful movie. In many ways, what starts off as a comedy – with the shock factor of the things they say, how they say them, and the ruthless nature of the fashion industry – then turns into something much more poignant and deep. I think it’s that shift in tone that people really gravitate toward.”
Blunt said it was “terribly moving” to be coming back for the sequel as The Devil Wears Prada had “changed everything” for her career.
The A Quiet Place actress said: “It’s terribly moving. Because it changed everything. David Frankel changed my life by casting me when I was an unknown. I’d been working, but no one knew who I was, and he was so sure that he wanted me in the movie, from a taped reading. That meant a huge amount to me.”
‘It’s going to be everything that everyone wants it to be’: Lucy Liu has high hopes for The Devil Wears Prada 2
