Meryl Streep reveals why she was “miserable” making her iconic movie
<p>Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep has revealed the difficult time she had onset of one of her most well-known films.</p>
<p>Streep perfectly incapsulated <em>The Devil Wears Prada</em> character, Miranda Priestly, who was the editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine and the blueprint for a boss from hell</p>
<p>It has been 15 years since the world first got to see Streep in a new, brilliantly-played light, and now she and her co-stars have revealed what it was like working on the film.</p>
<p>Streep is now 71, and boldly revealed that she employed method acting while filming.</p>
<p>She often chose to retain elements of her icy, mean-spirited character, even off-set.</p>
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<p>It became an often occurrence that she would brush off her co-stars Emily Blunt and Anne Hathaway.</p>
<p>“Meryl is so gregarious and fun as hell, in some ways it wasn’t the most fun for her having to remove herself,” Blunt told the publication.</p>
<p>“It wasn’t like she was unapproachable; You could go up to her and say, ‘Oh my God, the funniest thing just happened,’ and she’d listen, but I don’t know if it was the most fun for her to be on set being that way.”</p>
<p>Streep said filming the movie “was horrible!</p>
<p>“I was [miserable] in my trailer. I could hear them all rocking and laughing. I was so depressed! I said, ‘Well, it’s the price you pay for being boss!’”</p>
<p>She went on to say: “That’s the last time I ever attempted a Method thing!”</p>
<p>Streep’s performance earned her a host of high-profile awards including a Golden Globe and a nomination for an Oscar.</p>
<p>The star has since been nominated for the industry’s highest honour seven more times.</p>
<p>Hathaway agreed with Blunt that Steep put up an unnatural wall during film, but admitted it helped.</p>
<p>“I did feel intimidated, but I always felt cared for,” she explained.</p>
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<p>“I knew that whatever she was doing to create that fear, I appreciated [because] I also knew she was watching out for me.”</p>
<p>Streep’s character has drawn comparisons to <em>Vogue </em>editor Anna Wintour who has had to knock down several rumours that she is an unkind boss.</p>
<p>“I wasn’t interested in doing a biopic on Anna; I was interested in her position in her company. I wanted to take on the burdens she had to carry, along with having to look nice every day,” Streep said.</p>
<p>The A-lister also spoke on the movie’s worldwide appeal, despite being marketed toward women as counter-programming for<em> Superman Returns.</em></p>
<p>“Because they’d given us such straitened circumstances to make the film with a smaller budget, this opened up and said that a ‘chick flick’ can be a huge hit with a broad audience,” she said.</p>
<p>“This is the first movie [where] men have come up to me and said, ‘I know how you felt; I have a company, and nobody understands me. It’s really hard.’</p>
<p>It’s the hardest thing in the world for a man to feel his way through to the protagonist of the film if it’s a woman.”</p>
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