‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ costume designer slams constant set photos: ‘Such a shame’
The devil is in the details.
Emmy-winning costume designer Molly Rogers isn’t thrilled with “The Devil Wears Prada 2” set photos making the rounds.
“You know, people are just gonna get burned out with all the paparazzi shots,” Rogers exclusively told The Post.
She was referring to all the set photos of Anne Hathaway, 42, and fellow cast members such as Meryl Streep, 76, and Emily Blunt, 42, filming the upcoming movie in New York City.
Social media has been flooded with snaps from the set, as fans have poured over their outfits and guessed at plot points.
“There’s people monetizing my work. That are identifying every single thing they wear,” Rogers added.
Hathaway and her co-stars have been identified as wearing clothing from Dries Van Noten, Saint Laurent, Stella McCartney, Dior, Coach, and more.
“It’s just such a shame,” Rogers said. “A lot of times, you feel like you’ve already seen the movie just by the exterior shots.”
The costume designer acknowledged, however, that if a scene involves characters “doing a walk and talk in New York,” then “you can’t do anything about” bystanders taking photos.
The set photos fall into a long trend of images hitting the internet before a movie debuts its trailer.
In recent months, there have been steamy set photos of Timothee Chalamet and Gwyneth Paltrow filming their movie “Marty Supreme.”
In an interview with The Post in February, “The White Lotus” executive producer David Bernad said that one of the biggest “struggles” of filming the Emmy-winning HBO hit show was that “tourists were filming us filming.”
“The White Lotus” Season 3 was shot in a real hotel in Thailand, where fellow guests were also vacationing on the premises.
“There was a moment where we were filming a pretty sensitive scene, and there was somebody filming from a hotel room,” Bernad recalled. He ended up calling the person over and watching as they deleted the footage from their phone.
When megahit “Game of Thrones” was filming its ending, the show was even rumored to have filmed multiple “fake” endings, in an effort to avoid spoilers and leaks.
“I think they’re filming a bunch of stuff and they’re not telling us. I’m being serious….I think that they don’t even trust us,” series star Emilia Clarke told The Hollywood Reporter in 2018. “There’s lots of different endings that could happen; I think we’re doing all of them and we aren’t being told which is actually what’s going to happen.”
Although leaked footage is understandably a thorn in the side of any production, many viewers enjoy dissecting them. It’s become an unavoidable part of modern social media culture.
The original “The Devil Wears Prada” had costume designer Patricia Field, but Rogers, who has worked on “Sex and the City” and the spinoff “And Just Like That,” also worked on that film. Rogers has long been known as Field’s protegee.
Field, 83, hasn’t publicly stated why she’s not returning for the sequel, but she’s also working on Netflix’s “Emily in Paris.”
“I worked on the first [movie] with Pat,” Rogers said, referring to Field. “I always try to follow her DNA, even though it’s 20 years later, I think, for all these characters.”
The original 2006 movie follows aspiring journalist Andrea “Andy” Sachs (Hathaway), who ends up landing a job as an assistant to high-powered fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly (Streep).
Andy isn’t interested in fashion and wants to do more serious journalism, but she takes the job at the fictional Runway magazine, anyway. The two women have a battle of wills, but ultimately end in a place of mutual respect. Andy also butts heads with Miranda’s senior assistant, Emily (Blunt) and bonds with art director Nigel (Stanley Tucci).
The sequel will see Hathaway, Streep, Tucci, and Blunt reprise their roles, joined by Kenneth Branagh, Justin Theroux, BJ Novak, and Simone Ashley, among others.
Sydney Sweeney and “Summer House” alum Paige DeSorbo were also seemingly spotted on set, even though roles haven’t been officially announced.
“Entourage” star Adrian Grenier, who played Hathaway’s love interest, will reportedly not reprise his role. Australian actor Patrick Brammall will step in instead.
“The Devil Wears Prada 2” is expected to hit theaters on May 1, 2026.
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