Key Devil Wears Prada cast member not returning for sequel
The Devil Wears Prada 2 needs a new grilled cheese server.
Adrian Grenier will not be reprising his role as Nate Cooper in the sequel to the 2006 comedy-drama classic, Entertainment Weekly reported on Monday.
Meanwhile, original stars Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci are confirmed to be returning for the sequel, which started production on Monday.
The Post has reached out to Grenier's rep for comment.
The Devil Wears Prada sequel is officially in the works, starring Hathaway, Streep and Blunt.
In The Devil Wears Prada, Grenier, 48, plays a chef and Andy Sachs' (Anne Hathaway) college boyfriend. But as Andy advances in career at Runway magazine, their relationship falls apart. Nate later chooses a new job as a Boston sous-chef over Andy after she quits Runway.
Grenier played Nate, Andy's love interest.
In a 2021 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Grenier opened up about fans labelling Nate the real villain of the film.
'When that whole thing first came out, I couldn't get my head around it. I didn't understand it,' the actor admitted. 'Perhaps it was because I wasn't mature as a man, just as Nate probably could've used a little growing up. I was just as immature as him at the time, so I couldn't see his shortcomings.'
'But,' the Entourage alum added, 'after taking time to reflect and much deliberation online, I can realise the truth in that perspective. Nate hadn't grown up, but Andy had … she needed more out of life, and she was achieving it.
' He couldn't support her like she needed because he was a fragile, wounded boy … on behalf of all the Nates out there: Come on! Step it up!'
He won't return for the sequel.
Disney's 20th Century Studios confirmed on Monday that The Devil Wears Prada 2 started filming.
The studio, as well as Hathaway, 42, and Tucci, 64, announced the news with a teaser clip of two red pump heels.
'The Devil Wears Prada 2. Now in production,' the Instagram caption read.
The story picks up in the future, following Miranda's career amid the 'decline of traditional magazine publishing'.
Director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna are returning for the sequel, while Kenneth Branagh is reportedly joining the cast as Miranda Priestly's (Streep) husband.
The sequel, according to Variety, will follow Miranda 'as she navigates her career amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing and as she faces off against Blunt's character, now a high-powered executive for a luxury group with advertising dollars that Priestly desperately needs.'
The hit 2006 film was loosely based on Lauren Weisberger's book of the same name, written about her experience as an assistant to longtime Vogue editor Anna Wintour.
Streep portrayed the Wintour-esque editor of Runway magazine, while Anne Hathaway and Blunt's characters played her overworked assistants.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 does not have a release date.
This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission.
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