Real-Life Emily From The Devil Wears Prada Comes Forward, Says Original Novel Was 'Mean' and 'Hurtful'

Leslie Fremar, a personage stylist who claims to beryllium the inspiration down the The Devil Wears Prada quality Emily, precocious opened up astir her feelings toward the publication that the present classical 2006 drama was based on.

The Devil Wears Prada, released successful 2003, was written by Lauren Weisberger, who Fremar had hired to enactment with her portion she was archetypal adjunct to Vogue brag Anna Wintour, connected whom Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly was based.

Fremar told Vogue’s The Run-Through podcast that an aboriginal transcript of the publication was "quite mean," but "softened."

“I got a telephone from Anna’s bureau saying that she wanted to spot me,” Fremar said. “I was petrified. [Wintour] said, ‘Who’s Lauren Weisberger?’ And I said, ‘She was your inferior assistant.’ And she’s like, ‘Well, she wrote a publication astir us, and you’re worse than me.’”

“It conscionable felt similar this exposure," she continued. "Even though idiosyncratic evidently advised her to marque it fiction, it was truly based disconnected of a batch of things that, you know, I lived, she lived.”

"There wasn't this lightness to it. It felt rather dark," she explained successful the episode, which was published connected April 28. "I recovered that rather hurtful. I deliberation what got enactment into the satellite is simply a lighter, nicer mentation of what she really wrote."

The benignant pro besides noted that she felt precise exposed by the novel. "I retrieve feeling similar it was a betrayal, astatine the time,” Fremar said. “People weren't precise nationalist astir their jobs.”

Fremar asserted that she “is” the quality made celebrated by Emily Blunt’s portrayal successful the aboriginal aughts film, and that she “definitely told” the novel’s writer that a cardinal girls would termination for her adjunct job, which evolved into the now-famous enactment said by Blunt.

In the movie, Emily Charlton, played by Emily Blunt, is Miranda's archetypal adjunct and rival to Anne Hathaway's Andy Sachs, Miranda's 2nd adjunct and aspiring journalist. The stylist was a archetypal adjunct to Wintour astatine the clip of her day-to-day transportation with the author, whom she doesn’t program connected reconnecting with contempt the occurrence of her story. "I deliberation it would beryllium precise awkward,” she said connected the podcast. “I don't clasp a grudge towards her, it became thing that I don't deliberation she knew that I knew, and I deliberation it would just, there's thing to beryllium said."

IGN's The Devil Wears Prada 2 reappraisal returned a 7/10. We said: "If you're looking to effortlessly gaffe backmost into the glossy and charming satellite of New York precocious fashion, you'll beryllium delighted by the familiarity The Devil Wears Prada 2 provides. But if you privation nonstop aforesaid characters that you met successful the archetypal movie, you mightiness find the movie rather a alteration of pace."

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Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.