The Cast of 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' – Best Moments

0:01 [music] [cheering] So tell me about working with Mel Street.

0:07 I love Merryill so much and she's so funny.

0:10 Amazing.

0:11 You must Was that the first time meeting her or had you met her before?

0:13 I had met her once at sort of a Hollywood party and she

0:17 in no way remembered it and I sort of rambled on for about five minutes.

0:20 Uh while she just sort of smiled and everything and then

0:23 at the end of it she cut me off and she's like, "Oh,

0:25 you're so pretty." And then she just sort of turned away and I'm like,

0:28 "Oh, [laughter] It was it was the best put down ever.

0:32 So, but then so then when I met her again, it was it was better.

0:35 But she was very kind and uh I thought, "Oh, great.

0:38 I'm going to get to work with Marl Street.

0:39 I'll get to hear all the the back, you know,

0:41 behind the scenes gossip about what Robert Dairo is like, what, you know,

0:45 Clint Eastwood's like, and she's just like, "Oh, just just FYI,

0:48 I'm not going to be nice to you on this movie set, but you're lovely." Wow.

0:52 So, but but no, she was staying in character.

0:55 Yeah.

0:55 Just because she was going to stay in character.

0:56 And so it's, you know, you're working with your idol and so you're just like,

0:59 and anything you want is fine, but it's okay.

1:02 She was like that with everyone though.

1:03 So it wasn't like just me, which that would have been horrible.

1:06 [laughter]

1:06 Yeah.

1:07 But you see her hanging out with everybody.

1:09 Exactly.

1:09 And then I walk by and she just goes

1:13 She So are you cuz you you're dressed I love the way you dress.

1:16 I mean, are you usually into

1:17 I woke up wearing this, too.

1:18 Really?

1:19 [laughter] Just like this.

1:20 I like fashion.

1:21 I do.

1:22 It's it's cool.

1:23 It's it's it's a strange thing that now at this point

1:26 um people are paying attention to what I wear.

1:28 So it used to be something a bit more enjoyable and now

1:32 it sort of feels in a strange way competitive, but um

1:35 they're going to catch you in that one

1:36 outfit when you go out shopping or something.

1:38 Exactly.

1:38 You know where your hair is up and your pants are falling down.

1:41 Yeah.

1:41 Yeah.

1:41 I can't wait for that.

1:43 Yeah.

1:43 Well, now they're looking for it now that they know you do that.

1:46 Exactly.

1:46 So, but So, you do like fashion.

1:48 You're into that.

1:49 I do.

1:50 Yeah.

1:50 I think it's I think it's nice.

1:51 I like the design of clothes and I also

1:53 I think it's really interesting uh the way people choose

1:56 to present themselves to the to the world and you

1:59 and I are kind of sporting the same idea.

2:01 A little bit a little bit of the same idea.

2:02 I like it.

2:03 I but I I'll always go for a white shirt and a vest.

2:06 There's nothing wrong with that.

2:07 You can't go wrong.

2:08 I mean, have you have you worn something that you go,

2:10 "Oh, I shouldn't have worn that." Oh, yeah.

2:14 Yeah.

2:13 Um I think everyone has that moment, albeit privately.

2:17 Um mine was horrible.

2:19 It was it was kind of one of those awful cried about it for days type things.

2:23 I went to this uh you know event and there was this really

2:27 long press line and I you know I'd done The Princess Diaries.

2:30 I wasn't in any way like a big deal but people

2:33 were all of a sudden paying a lot of attention

2:34 to me and I'm like wow maybe maybe it's happening and I'm

2:37 becoming an adult and my my career is turning a corner.

2:40 No, my dress was completely see-through and it was fine.

2:44 No, no, no.

2:44 It was fine like to the to the to the naked eye,

2:47 but apparently with a flashlight I was naked.

2:49 So, um yeah, that was bad.

2:52 And the worst thing, you know, what was so awful?

2:54 People thought that I did it intentionally to get like,

2:56 you know, to wind up in papers and stuff.

2:58 Are you saying we have a picture?

2:59 Somebody's saying we have a picture.

3:00 We have a [laughter]

3:02 You did not just do that.

3:03 YOU DID NOT just do that.

3:06 Well, you at least had the Ellen thing covering it, so that's good.

3:09 I know.

3:10 That's great that you brought that.

3:11 Exactly.

3:11 [applause] Available at CVS now.

3:13 No.

3:14 Yeah.

3:14 Wow.

3:15 Since then I was um I'm very happy for you know nipple pedals.

3:19 Yeah.

3:19 [laughter] Never leave home without him.

3:21 It's like American Express cards really.

3:25 Uhhuh.

3:25 I Okay.

3:26 So you were fantastic in Devil Wears Prada

3:29 and uh don't [cheering] you such a [applause] great nasty character.

3:36 And this is really interesting that I learned about you today

3:39 is that you uh when you were younger had a stutter.

3:42 Yeah, I did.

3:43 At what age did you develop the stutter?

3:45 I think it started when I was about um

3:49 about seven or eight and then it got progressively worse.

3:52 Do you know what caused it?

3:53 I don't know because I had a really nice family and I wasn't a tense child.

3:56 I just I don't understand why I couldn't talk.

3:59 Was it bad?

4:00 Was it like

4:00 It got really bad.

4:01 It got really bad.

4:02 And it's it's weird because it still comes back sometimes if I get nervous or

4:06 Well, how long did it last?

4:07 So, seven seven years old.

4:09 Probably badly.

4:10 It lasted from the age of seven till 12.

4:12 I mean there are certain words that were very hard to say

4:15 like um sounds with a C like can you pass the salt.

4:19 I kind of turn in turn it into may I have the salt was easier to say and

4:23 so words like with a t sound were really tough

4:26 because I would think I mean it's hard when you

4:28 talk to someone with a stutter you know they're self-conscious

4:31 of it which probably makes it worse and that must

4:34 really be scary inside that you don't want to talk.

4:37 Well, in a way, I think it's embarrassing

4:38 for the person with the stutter and the person who is,

4:41 you know, who you're talking to because they don't know

4:43 if they should finish your sentence or anything like that.

4:45 And right, um, I actually had a friend save my life when I

4:48 was at school when it came to stuttering because when I was like 12,

4:51 I had a knee accident doing gymnastics and I was on crutches and then

4:54 it so happened at that time it was the school Christmas party and um,

4:58 my mom had the inspired idea to tell me to go as Tiny Tim from Christmas Carol.

5:02 Yeah.

5:03 So, I had my peasants cap that I doed to various

5:06 children as I walked past them and I went uh uh

5:09 for the school dinner and the head mistress came up to me

5:12 and asked me to stand up in front of the whole school.

5:14 Each kid was asked to stand up and say, you know, what they'd come as.

5:17 And I was I was Tiny Tim, which was virtually impossible to say.

5:21 Horrible.

5:21 And so she said,

5:22 "That must have taken you a long time to say that."

5:24 I didn't even say it.

5:25 I literally stood there and went

5:28 and then I had and then I said guess cuz

5:31 I thought that was the only thing I could say.

5:32 And then a friend saved me and said,

5:33 "She's got this tiny Tim D." And I was like, "Thank you so much."

5:37 Um,

5:37 but it is I mean it I can kind of look back on it

5:39 now um in a detached way because I don't really suffer from it anymore.

5:43 But how did you how did you get out of it?

5:45 Cuz I mean I I know that there are

5:46 people out there that that's got to be a really

5:48 it's an anguish thing to go through for you.

5:52 I actually had a really wonderful teacher who asked me if

5:55 I wanted to do the class play and I said I can't.

5:58 And he said, "Well, would you like to try it

6:00 in a different voice?" And I kind of went and he said,

6:04 "Can you do any accents?" And I said, "Yes." And he so I did at the age of 12.

6:08 It was like a northern English accent, which it probably wasn't.

6:10 Probably sounded like I was from Jamaica or something.

6:12 So just changing But it worked.

6:14 Sounds like me when I'm trying to do accents.

6:16 And so that change changing the accent helped you.

6:19 Yeah.

6:19 I think it's a freeing thing because it's such an awful thing to go through.

6:22 And so I would advise any parents whose child has a stutter to send them

6:26 to an acting class because there's something freeing

6:28 in maybe being someone else for the day.

6:30 It's because it's like a record that's skipping and you just

6:32 got to click it over into a different way of thinking.

6:34 It's very weird.

6:35 It's very weird thing to go through.

6:36 Yeah.

6:36 Well, the fact that you went into it for so

6:38 long and then were able to come out of it.

6:40 Well, now I am in a job where I have

6:41 to enjoy the sound of my voice, which is bizarre.

6:43 Yeah.

6:44 Yeah.

6:44 And you do a a great American accent.

6:46 And how did you learn how to do that if you were so bad at accents early on?

6:50 Um, I did.

6:51 Yeah.

6:51 [laughter] My northern was bad.

6:53 I just I'm surrounded by it all the time.

6:55 So I'm here a lot and then I have a lot of American

6:57 friends and so I had a bit of coaching but it's more about

7:00 can you just go into it right now like say a can you just speak so for example

7:04 that was not American for example

7:07 so I would say frustrated but you guys say frustrated yeah see that already

7:13 so you have you put different intonations on words and all the time

7:16 yeah you do it wrong so um

7:19 I'm the one with the accent

7:20 yeah you're frustrated you know it's [laughter] like

7:22 that's so frustrating That's frustrating.

7:25 Yeah.

7:25 Frustrated.

7:26 Frustrated.

7:26 But that would be hard to like snap in and out of it when you're when you

7:30 because it's a whole attitude.

7:31 I mean, you guys tend to enthused more naturally um than we do.

7:35 We're easily enthused.

7:38 Easily excited.

7:39 People are blasze most places and we're very excited about a lot of stuff.

7:43 Yeah.

7:43 I'll get someone come up to me on the street and go, "Oh my god,

7:46 you were so good in the movie."

7:47 And then I'll have someone else in England going,

7:49 "Yeah, you were you were quite good in that."

7:51 Yeah.

7:51 And that's about and and you're thrilled with that.

7:53 That's about all you'll get.

7:54 Yeah, they don't dole out compliments very easily.

7:57 No, it doesn't happen.

7:58 Hi, Mel.

8:00 Hi.

7:59 I could just gush for like I I I

8:01 don't want to talk about anything other than how amazing

8:04 you are as a human being number one and then

8:08 as as an actress and and in this role.

8:11 Oh my god.

8:12 Oh my god.

8:13 Thank you very much.

8:14 Yeah, you're going to win this thing.

8:15 I mean, there's no doubt in my mind you're going to win this thing.

8:18 [cheering] Thank you very [applause] much.

8:22 Mark my words.

8:24 And there's some good performances out there that you're up against this year.

8:27 I think Michelle Williams was great.

8:29 Beautiful.

8:30 Bernice in The Artist.

8:32 Amazing.

8:33 Oh, incredible.

8:34 But but you're going to win.

8:35 I I promise you a lot of great performances this year.

8:37 And I love all of those women and the performances.

8:39 You'll win.

8:43 Yeah.

8:42 How about the great Viola Davis?

8:44 Can we mention her?

8:45 Yes.

8:45 I'm sorry.

8:45 [laughter] Yes.

8:46 I don't know everybody nominated on this.

8:49 And you won the New York Film Critics Award.

8:51 a couple of days ago, right?

8:52 Yeah.

8:53 Yeah.

8:53 So, you you're just you're Me and Brad Pitt.

8:56 Yes.

8:56 Really?

8:57 Well, he wasn't the actress.

8:58 He wrote the actress, right?

9:00 [laughter] No.

9:01 So, it's exciting.

9:01 It's very exciting.

9:02 Yeah.

9:02 It was very very exciting.

9:03 Anyway, I'm happy to see you and uh

9:05 it's been six years since you've been here and

9:07 I'm going to look at you because I can't see you.

9:10 Really?

9:10 Yeah.

9:10 No, I can.

9:11 If I got up and moved around, you'd never know.

9:13 Like when you were talking,

9:14 I [laughter] could actually hide and you'd still be looking in this direction.

9:17 It's true.

9:17 Really?

9:18 These are so dirty.

9:19 Yeah.

9:19 I can't even see through them anyway.

9:21 So, there you go.

9:22 Okay.

9:22 Thanks.

9:22 Do you do you wear contact lenses ever?

9:25 I I used to.

9:26 Uh but [laughter] I can't imagine.

9:34 I only uh need glasses to read.

9:36 I can see far away, but I can't see closeup.

9:38 But I would think that would be hard to put contacts in.

9:40 That's why I asked.

9:41 Yeah, it's hard to and I would forget that I

9:43 had them in and I would leave them in all night.

9:45 And that isn't good.

9:46 No.

9:46 No.

9:46 And I did that a number of times.

9:48 I have a bad memory except you know

9:50 there's no way you have a bad memory

9:51 with all the things you have to memorize and and

9:54 Yeah.

9:54 But you know the the there are other things that I forget.

9:59 Really?

9:58 Yeah.

9:58 Yeah.

10:01 Like contacts I guess.

10:02 Oh like contacts and you know flossing and things like that.

10:05 [laughter] That's very important.

10:07 I know

10:08 you should floss.

10:09 [gasps] When's the last time you flossed?

10:12 Just before I came in.

10:13 Good.

10:13 Good.

10:14 So that's good.

10:14 And before that?

10:15 Maybe like a week ago.

10:16 Yeah.

10:17 [laughter] I don't remember.

10:18 It's award season.

10:19 You got to floss every day now.

10:20 There's a lot of So, you've got the Globes coming up this Sunday.

10:23 Yeah.

10:23 And and and you've been to the Oscars and the Globes many, many times.

10:26 Now, is it is it the same experience?

10:28 Because I know your life is very

10:29 different when you're not here because you live,

10:32 you know, a totally different way.

10:33 Is it the same experience for you every time or is it different?

10:37 Well, every time I stay in a different hotel, which is really exciting.

10:42 [laughter] You must be running out of hotels.

10:45 You've been here a lot.

10:47 This time I have one that has um when I got up

10:50 in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom um

10:54 I the the lid was on the toilet so I I reached

10:57 for it and it wrestled itself away from me and opened by itself.

11:03 Wow.

11:03 It didn't want me to do it.

11:05 No.

11:05 No.

11:05 Let me do it.

11:07 Yeah.

11:07 Yeah.

11:07 It's that fancy.

11:08 That is a fancy hotel.

11:10 Yeah.

11:10 I have to know where that is.

11:11 And is it one of those with the seat warmers and all that stuff?

11:14 Yeah, the seat is warm and soft.

11:16 you.

11:16 Oh, I mean there were a lot of upsetting things.

11:21 Yeah, [laughter] maybe you're sitting in a haunted house or something.

11:24 Maybe it's not a hotel at all.

11:28 Yeah.

11:28 So, so when you go to these things now,

11:29 obviously I talked about how many times you've been nominated.

11:32 Do you have obviously you have some kind of speech ready in your mind,

11:37 so you must have a whole lot left to pick from.

11:40 Like when you go up now, you like just there's a lot of people to thank.

11:44 Yes.

11:45 Yes, there are a lot of people to thank because um

11:48 I mean certainly in the Oscars I've lost for 14 14 times.

11:54 So I have 14 little crumpled up speeches.

11:58 Uhhuh.

11:58 I've threatened to issue them in a book or something.

12:00 I was going to say, have you kept the speeches?

12:03 It'd be interesting to see what you would say then.

12:05 And yeah, well it's hundreds of names of people that never

12:09 that are mad at me because you know they never got mentioned.

12:11 That's not true.

12:12 That's not Well, they're mad because you didn't win.

12:14 And also because you're so great on stage, too.

12:16 I would think people would just no matter

12:18 what role you're in just because we want

12:19 to see you talk on stage that we should just vote for you no matter what.

12:23 That's [laughter] what I feel.

12:24 That's a good rule.

12:25 Yeah.

12:26 All right.

12:26 Let's talk about uh and this article, by the way,

12:28 I I love the article and I love the things you're talking

12:31 about in here and we should talk about that for a minute, too.

12:34 But um on the cover of Vogue magazine and you uh

12:38 you said to the writer that you thought maybe you were

12:40 the oldest woman on the cover of Vogue and you you

12:43 actually you are the oldest woman on the cover which is fantastic.

12:46 I think that's a really [applause] important thing.

12:52 62 look [applause] great and uh and here you are.

12:58 Uh is this sort of near where you live?

13:01 That's um that's on a in a community supported agriculture a a farmer

13:05 my friend Andy Andy Shimanowitz he runs a place called Soulflower

13:10 Farm and you you pay a certain amount of money each summer

13:13 and you get a share of all the vegetables that he grows.

13:16 It's a beautiful thing.

13:17 Why can't we do that everywhere?

13:18 Why can't we get farmers back to farming

13:21 and and get fresh vegetables and getting farmers making money?

13:24 Well, they need the help.

13:25 That's for sure.

13:26 Yeah, they do.