Reuniting for a Sequel? The ‘Devil’ Made Them Do It.

“We don’t have a group chat, though.” “We should.” “Well, we can —” “I have too many group chats with my kids. It’s like, oh —” “So you’re rejecting our offer of a group chat?” “Yeah. I am.” “Fine.” “What kind of skirts do you —” “Please bore someone else with your questions.” “The first movie was made a year before the iPhone came out. It’s another world entirely. Anyone else want to weigh in?” “Yeah, I agree. The fact that it has sustained for 20 years is kind of amazing. You have generations of people watching.” “This is the only film my children have liked that I’ve done. They see themselves in Annie. They’re like, I’m her.” “Hello.” “Well, look what TJ Maxx dragged in.” “Sorry, who is this?” “This was in many ways, the biggest thing that I’d ever been a part of. And I was — you’ve heard me say this, and I don’t want to embarrass you, but I was acting opposite —” “Don’t say that.” “OK, I won’t, I won’t go there. I was acting opposite somebody from New Jersey, and I was really excited about that. So —” “Yeah, we’re Jersey girls.” “What, am I not allowed to say? Methadone? New Jersey?” “If Miranda Priestly were Michael Priestly, there would be no movie. The first movie. Everything she does is sort of slightly horrible, but would be kind of adorable if a man said, ‘By all means, move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me.’” “By all means, move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me.” “And everybody would go, ‘it’s great. He’s great, isn’t he?’ But there’s a special tinge of mercury around that kind of remark from a woman. It just hurts more.” “Do you guys think that you could be a mean person and a good boss?” “I am a mean person. I don’t have to think, could I do that.” “Do you mean in life or in the movie?” “No, I mean in life. You know I mean in life.” “Mean as a snake.” “She’s not mean in life.” “She’s gorgeous.” “In drama school, they would say to us, ‘Do you know how to convey that you’re the king or you’re the queen?’ Everybody would say, ‘Well, you project power.’ And the teacher said, ‘No, no, the way you convey power is how everyone else in the room behaves when you enter it. You just act naturally — you just behave.’ So that was the direction, that you gave me, that everybody was afraid of me.” “But that was your decision as well, to play her in that way, which was such an amazing way to go, to not come in swinging it around.” “Swinging what around?” “I mean, your enormous penis.” “I hope that’s not what you’re wearing to the dinner.” “Oh.” “That’s all.” “The first movie had great swing and great hope, and we had a lot of fun making it. I mean, I certainly didn’t know anything going into that.” “Well, Emily had a lot of fun, and Annie —” “Had a lot of fun.” “And Stanley had a lot of fun.” “The first movie — it was disastrous every day. I kept a journal and I went, I remember —” “Was it really?” “Yes, every day was a disaster. And I kept a journal. And on this movie on Day 4, I said, ‘Let me just see what Day 4 was like on the — 20 years ago. And it says, ‘Thursday: It’s hard to imagine a day could go worse than this.’” “Stop, really?” “Really?” “But you never let us know that. We didn’t know how bad —” “No.” “That wasn’t the vibe on set.” “That’s amazing.” “You’ve changed. You have. You’re much more confident. Kept those eyebrows, though, didn’t you?” “It’s 20 years later in all of our lives. And Andy has lived a life that has given her a lot of satisfaction. She did what she wanted to do. She was out there chasing stories. The thing that she doesn’t have, and she’s having a hard time finding, is something that a lot of people in the world are having a hard time finding, which is job security. The landscape is changing and things that used to feel so safe now feel so unstable.” “The first one was more of a ‘Cinderella’ story, and this one is more like ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ with better — with good clothes. You know what I mean? This is like this young woman going through the stations of the cross, every crisis of conscience and betrayal. And you have a lot of big decisions. So that’s relatable. This is more complicated, I think. That’s all.” “Fabulous.”