Emily Blunt Admits She Was 'Quite Scared' of Meryl Streep While Making“ The Devil Wears Prada”

Emily Blunt revealed Meryl Streep stayed in character as Miranda Priestly, creating an intimidating atmosphere on set

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• Streep admitted using a “slight remove” to embody authority, even skipping cast bonding moments during filming

• Streep admits that she would often hear her castmates laughing without her

Emily Blunt admitted that Meryl Streep was a little too “in the zone” duringThe Devil Wears Prada.

The cast ofThe Devil Wears Pradaand its sequel,Anne Hathaway,Streep,BluntandStanley Tuccisat down for an exclusiveSiriusXM Front Rowhosted by Andy Cohen.

Cohen, 57, askedThe Quiet Placeactress if Streep, 76, was intimidating to work with.

“I mean, on the first one, I was quite scared because I feel like you were in a zone,” she said to Streep.

Streep chimed in with “Oh, yeah. I was in that zone.”

Blunt shared, “She was in a Miranda zone,” making reference to the fictional editor in chief of Runway Magazine, character Miranda Priestly.

“Not impenetrable, but we could come up and tell you a funny story, but you wouldn't do your extraordinary laugh that I normally heard,” Blunt noted.

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Cohen then asked Streep if it was hard being “method” to which she replied, “No.”

“The first three days I went and hung around the camera with the director, you know, and then we'd go on to do the scene and I'd go, you know, this and they'd go... it was just like a remove. A slight remove. The authority, the thing,” Streep shared.

TheMamma Mia!actress brought up that she recently spoke with actress and director Greta Gerwig about the issue of being too method.

“She was saying the same thing. You know, they kind of don't want you at the cast party, right? It's like you have to have just a little bit of a barrier to feel like the boss and to make it—I don't know what it was, but it worked. When I went back and was miserable in my trailer and heard them all in the makeup trailer and they're all—I could hear from far away—they're all having a great time, you know,” Streep explained.

Both Streep and Cohen quipped “It's lonely at the top.”

The sequel, in theaters May 1, follows Priestly “as she navigates her career amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing and as she faces off against Blunt's character, now a high-powered executive for a luxury group with advertising dollars that Priestly desperately needs.”

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