Meryl Streep & Stanley Tucci on Why Journalism Matters | The Devil Wears Prada 2 Interview

As the movie says, journalism still [ __ ] matters. — Absolutely. I want to zoom into a key moment right at the beginning of the film. That's an exchange between the two of you. Um Stanley, you stop um Miranda, Meryl's character, on the red carpet to tell her that the business of fashion has run a story. And that story um I can tell directly from the look on Miranda Priestly's face, she knows in that instant everything's changed, it's over. What was it like to be delivering that news? — it was it's a great starting point for the film because the rug is the rug they're already walking on quicksand. And now the rug is just pulled out from under the red carpet's pulled out, yeah. And they could just topple. And they have to figure out a way to fix it like that fast. And what do you think, Meryl, it was a digital publication founded around the same time as the first movie that came out. — Yes, how about that? — That threatens you know, Miranda Priestly's reputation, a venerable editor at a venerable um old-school media publication. So a digital publication that's breaking this news story. That is kind of a theme that flows through the whole film. — Runs right through the film. We're all living through this uncertain moment. We're all watching journalism be undermined. The splintering of it all. The fact that you have to follow an individual journalist now on Substack, find them over here. Where are they all going? The scandal that breaks out in this moment is related to sustainability and workers' rights in the supply chain. You know, some of the bits of the film sound like they were torn out of today's headlines. So what do you think it the film was trying to say about how the fashion industry is changing, being more accountable to consumers? — It means you have to be so on alert because anything can pull down the enterprise in a moment. But it's much easier, as we all know, to destroy something than to build it up again. I started BOF right around the time that The Devil Wears Prada 1 came out, right? And so then to see it mentioned in the film and seeing potentially, you know, it's digital publications like ours now that have the authority and the ability to change the whole industry, both the media industry and the fashion industry. It's what's important is that we retain the values of accuracy, fair reporting. — That's it. Yes, absolutely. — That's the thing, and that's why one of the reasons the world is such a mess now because we we don't know what's real, what's accurate. What is really true. And like you say, you used to say it before. — by — Yeah, completely manipulated. And you were manipulated by your own interests because the algorithm is telling you what you're interested in, and you start to believe this thing. You think, well, actually no, I need some other points of view, you know. Um it just makes it so simple. So journalism is still important and needs to survive. — As the movie says, journalism still [ __ ] matters. — Absolutely. Well, thank you for your time, and thank you for including us in the film. — You're a major plot point. You are it. You are it.