Kate Hudson Regrets Turning Down THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA "That Was a Bad Call... It Just Sucked, You Know?"
Every actor has that one role they accidentally let slip through their fingers, and for Kate Hudson, it’s The Devil Wears Prada.
The film stars Anne Hathaway as a fashion magazine intern who slowly and begrudgingly climbs the ladder as the assistant to one of the most influential people in the world of fashion, Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl Streep.
The film was an instant hit, and has remained a fan favorite as well as a social pulse point, but Hathaway’s role of Andy- the mousy underling turned fashionista assistant, was almost played by Kate Hudson.
The actress said on the Capital Breakfast radio show (via Entertainment Weekly) that turning down The Devil Wears Prada was “a bad call.” Before Hathaway was cast as Andrea “Andy” Sachs, director David Frankel met with top Hollywood stars Hudson, Rachel McAdams, Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman and Kirsten Dunst.
“That was a bad call. It was a timing thing, it was one of those things where I couldn’t do it, and I should’ve made it happen, and I didn’t,” Hudson said, all these years later. “That was one where when I saw it I was like, ‘Ugh.'”
Hudson maintained that “everything happens for a reason,” but she still admitted that she “should’ve made that work.” The movie, which was a box office hit with $327 million and a two-time Oscar nominee, remains one of Hathaway’s most memorable and iconic roles.
Hudson went on to say, “It’s funny. It’s waves of things that are happening and people shooting at different times. It’s not like you don’t do them because you don’t want to do them. It’s like, ‘Oh, you’re doing something else.’ And it just sucked, you know?”
David Frankel previously told Entertainment Weekly that the studio behind The Devil Wears Prada was not initially open to casting Hathaway in the lead role. “We offered it to Rachel McAdams three times,” he revealed. “The studio was determined to have her, and she was determined not to do it.”
News broke last year that Disney is developing a sequel to the hit 2006 movie. The original film’s screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Your Place or Mine) is in talks to return to script the sequel. The storyline reportedly follows Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly as she navigates her career amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing and faces off against Emily Blunt’s character, now a high-powered executive for a luxury group with advertising dollars that Priestly desperately needs.
via: Variety