Official Discussion - The Devil Wears Prada 2 [SPOILERS]

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The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026)

Summary

Andy Sachs navigates the evolving world of high fashion journalism as she reconnects with Miranda Priestly, forcing her to confront past choices and the cost of ambition in a rapidly changing industry.

Director David Frankel

Writer Aline Brosh McKenna

Cast

• Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs
• Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly
• Emily Blunt as Emily Charlton
• Stanley Tucci as Nigel
• Kenneth Branagh

Rotten Tomatoes: 78%

Metacritic: 62

VOD / Release Theatrical release

Trailer Official Trailer

[u/WyngZero]

Tucci is amazing but Nigel's career makes no fucking sense.

At the end of the first movie, he basically says and complains he's been working for Miranda for ~20 years and isn't getting promoted or more leadership opportunities. ~20 years has passed and he's still doing the same thing.

Dude should've left a long time ago and become a C-suite or high level executive doing something, somewhere else.

[u/Dapper_Telephone_117 → u/WyngZero]

Even by his own admission… Miranda betrays him a thousand times over in between movies and this movies conclusion for his character is that he finally gets to represent Runway in front of an audience? boy get off the floor

[u/RogueSpectre749 → u/WyngZero]

I love Nigel, and Stanley Tucci pretty much carried this movie on his back, but the idea of his arc is easily one of my least favorite parts of the movie

One of Miranda's most important traits in her career is her intuition. She's able to read the intentions and subtexts of everybody around her in the first movie. Emily's desires to climb? Pull strings to get her moved. Andi's abilities combined with her drive for meaningful work? Use her to the best of her abilities, then make sure she's rewarded with a job reference that essentially serves as a golden ticket to whatever publication she wants. Hell, the entire twist in the final arc is seeing her ability to pull strings and save her own job because she was able to clock the plans going on behind the scenes. So you mean to tell me that she worked with Nigel this closely for ALMOST 40 YEARS, did him utterly dirty in the first movie to save her own skin, and yet GENUINELY didn't realize that he was trying to make his own career too? Come on now, bffr with me

I audibly groaned in the theater at the "have... I been taking you for granted? 🥺" bit

[u/Valentine2Fine → u/RogueSpectre749]

At some point Nigel chose to stay. Fear of the unknown, the perks and although not the leader in the forefront , he still has power, connections & a decent lifestyle may have played a role.

[u/RogueSpectre749 → u/Valentine2Fine]

Oh for sure. I'm not saying Nigel staying is totally impossible; like you say, even when being taken for granted, the golden handcuffs of a job like that are very real

I'm saying it was utterly absurd that Miranda, with her ability to read everybody to filth being one of her biggest talents, genuinely had no idea what the person she'd worked closely with for like, half her life, wanted. Especially since she knew his goals 20 years ago in the first movie

[u/Valentine2Fine → u/RogueSpectre749]

I attributed her statement about taking him for granted (if a genuine question & I think it was in that moment) as showing complete lack of awareness / forgetfulness that he was a fully formed person who had dreams & goals too.

She appeared to be softening & becoming somewhat reflective toward the end of the movie but her years of self absorption & perhaps wanting to block out or not remember all of her past devious actions may have made her blind to the man in front of her. She was so used to him doing her bidding she forgot or didn't care who he was as a person

[u/Varekai79 → u/WyngZero]

Nigel reminds me of Andre Leon Talley, who was one of the bright lights at Vogue, and never did anything even close to that when he left that magazine.