A Terrifying Role
Aside from that, the filmmakers were worried about offending Wintour. As soon as the plot of The Devil Wears Prada became public knowledge, editors began to distance themselves from it. According to a screenwriter, Aline Brosh McKenna, told Entertainment Weekly, “I had enormous trouble finding anyone in the fashion world who’d talk to me. [That’s] because people were afraid of Anna and Vogue – not wanting to be blackballed.”
A Terrifying Role
Too Nice
She also stated, “There was one person who spoke to me, whose name I will never divulge, who read it and said, ‘The people in this movie are too nice. No one in that world is too nice. They don’t have to be, and they don’t have time to be.’ After that, I did a pass to make everyone a bit busier and meaner.”
Too Nice
