No actress has ever felt such gratitude not to be able to lead.
Because more than a decade and a half ago, Tracie Thoms he can still remember the horror he felt when Meryl Streep spoke those first tightly silenced words of The Devil Wears a Prada reading on the table. “We can hardly hear him,” said Thoms, who turned out to be a graduate student named Lily, the loyal, talk-like-it-best friend of Anne Hathawayby Andy Sachs.
At first, Thoms meant E! News, he thinks the three -time Oscar winner simply got the material, still shaping how he wants to play without apologizing. trends editor Miranda Priestly, a not-all-loose interpretation of Vogueof Anna Wintour. “Other actors when they come to the table reading, they’re still waiting to do the character exploration process,” he said. “That’s why they don’t try to make decisions early.”
But, “maybe, a page-and-a-half,” says Thoms about the script, which was adapted from Lauren WeisbergerThe more famous novel of the same name, a take on his time as Wintour’s assistant, “I was like, ‘Oh, no. that is the choice. Oh my god, this is the most genius thing I’ve ever seen in my life. ‘ Because it makes everyone at the table lean on him, on Miranda. “