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The Irish Sun
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Unlikely BBC sitcom star ‘cast as Anne Hathaway's love interest in Devil Wears Prada 2'
BBC sitcom star Patrick Brammall has been "cast as Anne Hathaway's new love interest in Devil Wears Prada 2". The Australian actor, who starred in drama series No Activity and Colin From Accounts, has landed a role in the long-awaited sequel. Advertisement 6 Anne Hathaway's character Andy Sachs has a new love interest in the sequel Credit: Getty 6 Patrick Brammall will star alongside Hathaway in Devil Wears Prada 2 Credit: Getty 6 The Australian actor announced the news on his Instagram Credit: Getty Although it has not been confirmed who the 49-year-old will be playing, Patrick will join several OG cast members, including But according to reports, Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who played Andy's boyfriend Nate, will not be returning. Fans will remember in The Devil Wears Prada, that Andy and Nate's relationship was tested after she began working at Runway magazine. Advertisement READ MORE ON ANNE HATHAWAY At the end of the film , it's hinted that they go their separate ways, with Nate taking a job in Boston and Andy leaving Runway and starting her new role at a local newspaper. Patrick confirmed his part in the new film with a post on Instagram. He posted a screengrab from Deadline announcing his new role and cheekily wrote: "Girding my loins." There are a number of other new faces joining the cast, including US actress Rachel Bloom, who is known series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Advertisement Most read in Celebrity In the sequel, Miranda Priestly is still the head of Runway, but Blunt's character Emily Charlton, former assistant to Miranda, is now an executive at a luxury brand that advertises with Runway. Emily now holds the power that Miranda needs to help her magazine, while Andy is now a magazine editor but is dragged back into Miranda's world. BBC's biggest comedy of the year bags a third series after rave reviews In June, Blunt told that she was going to start shooting the sequel in July. She said: 'It's so weird, I haven't even read a script, I don't know. I'm just like, where is she, I don't know." Advertisement Last week, Hathaway was spotted filming scenes in New York City. She was seen in a colour block maxi dress by Gabriela Hearst with a blue suitcase and another snap she was pictured in a dark pinstripe suit with black boots and messenger bag . The Devil Wears Prada grossed $326 million at the worldwide box office, with Streep receiving an Oscar nomination. 6 Patrick stars in BBC sitcom Colin From Accounts Credit: BBC Advertisement 6 Anne was spotted filming scenes in New York City Credit: Getty 6 Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt will also be returning Credit: TM and © 2006 Twentieth Century Fox. All rights reserved.
Scottish Sun
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Unlikely BBC sitcom star ‘cast as Anne Hathaway's love interest in Devil Wears Prada 2'
The actor confirmed his part in the new film with a post on Instagram STAR ROLE Unlikely BBC sitcom star 'cast as Anne Hathaway's love interest in Devil Wears Prada 2' Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) BBC sitcom star Patrick Brammall has been "cast as Anne Hathaway's new love interest in Devil Wears Prada 2". The Australian actor, who starred in drama series No Activity and Colin From Accounts, has landed a role in the long-awaited sequel. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 6 Anne Hathaway's character Andy Sachs has a new love interest in the sequel Credit: Getty 6 Patrick Brammall will star alongside Hathaway in Devil Wears Prada 2 Credit: Getty 6 The Australian actor announced the news on his Instagram Credit: Getty Although it has not been confirmed who the 49-year-old will be playing, New Idea reported on Tuesday that Patrick will star as Hathaway's character Andrea 'Andy' Sachs' new love interest. Patrick will join several OG cast members, including Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci. But according to reports, Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who played Andy's boyfriend Nate, will not be returning. Fans will remember in The Devil Wears Prada, that Andy and Nate's relationship was tested after she began working at Runway magazine. At the end of the film, it's hinted that they go their separate ways, with Nate taking a job in Boston and Andy leaving Runway and starting her new role at a local newspaper. Patrick confirmed his part in the new film with a post on Instagram. He posted a screengrab from Deadline announcing his new role and cheekily wrote: "Girding my loins." There are a number of other new faces joining the cast, including US actress Rachel Bloom, who is known series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. In the sequel, Miranda Priestly is still the head of Runway, but Blunt's character Emily Charlton, former assistant to Miranda, is now an executive at a luxury brand that advertises with Runway. Emily now holds the power that Miranda needs to help her magazine, while Andy is now a magazine editor but is dragged back into Miranda's world. BBC's biggest comedy of the year bags a third series after rave reviews In June, Blunt told Entertainment Tonight that she was going to start shooting the sequel in July. She said: 'It's so weird, I haven't even read a script, I don't know. I'm just like, where is she, I don't know." Last week, Hathaway was spotted filming scenes in New York City. She was seen in a colour block maxi dress by Gabriela Hearst with a blue suitcase and another snap she was pictured in a dark pinstripe suit with black boots and messenger bag. The Devil Wears Prada grossed $326 million at the worldwide box office, with Streep receiving an Oscar nomination. 6 Patrick stars in BBC sitcom Colin From Accounts Credit: BBC 6 Anne was spotted filming scenes in New York City Credit: Getty
Courier-Mail
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Courier-Mail
Aussie star lands big role in The Devil Wears Prada 2: report
Don't miss out on the headlines from Movies. Followed categories will be added to My News. A popular Aussie star has reportedly joined the sequel to The Devil Wears Prada in a very significant role. Patrick Brammall, 49, best known as Gordon in Colin From Accounts, is set to play the love interest for Anne Hathaway's Andy Sachs. Entertainment Weekly broke the news earlier this week after previously reporting that Andy's boyfriend from the 2006 original, Nate (Adrien Grenier), would not be in the long-awaited sequel. Brammall is yet to confirm the news. In the almost 20 years since The Devil Wears Prada was released, Nate has become an increasingly controversial character, with many agreeing his attitude toward Andy's career made him the real villain of the story. Hathaway is reprising her role as Andy in the sequel. Brammall will reportedly play the leading man. Grenier has since addressed the backlash himself, telling EW he understood the negativity toward Nate. 'When that whole thing [about Nate being the 'real villain' of the film] first came out, I couldn't get my head around it. I didn't understand it. Perhaps it was because I wasn't mature as a man, just as Nate probably could've used a little growing up,' he said in June 2021. Nate, played by Adrien Grenier, was Andy's love interest in the original film. 'I was just as immature as him at the time, so I couldn't see his shortcomings, but, 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,' Grenier said of his controversial character. 'On behalf of all the Nates out there: Come on! Step it up.' Streep and Blunt are also returning for the sequel. In The Devil Wears Prada, Andy and Nate break up after repeatedly clashing over priorities as her career skyrockets, but later reconnect – seemingly as friends – when they meet up after she finally quits her job. Joining the cast along with Brammall is My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Rachel Bloom, Lucy Liu, Justin Theroux and B.J. Novak, although details of their roles have been kept quiet. Meanwhile, original stars Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci were previously confirmed to reprise their roles. According to Variety, the sequel 'follows Priestly 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 Devil Wears Prada 2 will hit theatres in May 2026. Originally published as Aussie star lands big role in The Devil Wears Prada 2: report
Time Out
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Bring Her Back
If the warm, funny and fuzzy Colin From Accounts represents one extreme of Australian popular culture, then Bring Her Back is its polar opposite. The second feature from directors Danny and Michael Philippou, the brothers behind Talk To Me, takes the gore and frights of their debut and ally it to an examination of maternal instincts gone batshit crazy. Anchored by a terrific Sally Hawkins, it firmly cements the Australian duo as fresh, interesting voices in the over-saturated, often cookie cutter horror market. The set-up is economically sketched: following the death of their single father, teenage siblings Andy (Billy Barratt) and Piper (Sora Wong) are sent away to live with quirky foster parent Laura (Hawkins) in a spacious, secluded cabin in the woods replete with an empty swimming pool. Because it's never a luxurious townhouse with a fancy hot tub, is it? Laura is already a parent to another adopted, seemingly mute orphan Oliver (Jonah Wren Phillips), while grieving the mysterious death of her own daughter Cathy, who was blind. Andy, who is just shy of being old enough to become Piper's guardian, has vowed to look after his sister, who is also visually impaired, but begins to suspect their new custodian might have her own agenda. It doesn't reassure anyone – Andy or the audience – that Laura keeps her dead stuffed dog in the living room and Oliver in a locked bedroom, or that she throws a dance party plying her underage wards with whisky. Bring Her Back doesn't rely on jump scares or cheap thrills for its effect. There are startling moments – bursts of grainy VHS visuals of hanging and violence feel like a Marquis De Sade/Hieronymus Bosch TikTok collab, a kitchen knife/teeth interaction is unforgettable – but it really finds its impact in slow creeping dread fostered by a patiently built narrative. What is Laura's plan? Why did she snip a lock of hair from the teens' deceased dad at the funeral? Why is Andy wetting his bed? Sally Hawkins is part Paddington's mum, part Annie Wilkes and part Pazuzu The slow-burn screenplay (by Danny Philippou and Bill Hinzman) is further amped up by the filmmaking tekkers; from Emma Bortignon's unnerving sound design and composer Cornel Wilczek's feel for the foreboding to the tangible practical prosthetics (take a bow Make-up Effects Group), Bring Her Back gets under your skin and stays there. Like Talk To Her, it doesn't completely satisfy when it comes time to resolve its intrigue. But, as with their debut, the Philippou brothers show a real skill for creating believable teen characters, Barratt and Wong create a tender, affecting chemistry that make the chills all the more affecting. But perhaps unsurprisingly, the ace in the hole is Hawkins. Twisting the relentless upbeat energy of Poppy from Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky into something more sinister, Hawkins subtly reveals the underlying pain and malevolence beneath Laura's brittle sunniness without ever mugging. She consistently keeps you on your toes – part Paddington's mum, part Annie Wilkes, part Pazuzu, she delivers a real tour de force.
West Australian
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- West Australian
What to Watch: Mix Tape, Ocean With David Attenborough, Play School, Fubar and The Inspired Unemployed
Binge is fast carving a place for itself as the go-to for reliably excellent locally produced series. This is a good thing: they recently lost their HBO slate to new streaming rival Max, so investing locally is probably a solid strategy going forward. In recent years Binge has given us some ripper series, including The Twelve, Love Me and Colin From Accounts. Now they're blessing us with this great four-part drama, based on the acclaimed novel by Jane Sanderson. Told through dual timelines, it charts the teen love story of school friends Alison and Daniel (Florence Hunt and Rory Walton-Smith), living in Sheffield, England, in 1989, who fall in love and exchange mix tapes, which provide the musical backdrop to this beautifully realised series. Alison and Daniel's story picks up again in 2015, and by this stage the pair (now played by Teresa Palmer and Jim Sturgess) are long estranged, and living very different lives to their teen selves. Daniel is a music critic, still living in his hometown, and Alison is on the other side of the world in Sydney, the wife of an accomplished surgeon (played by Ben Lawson) — neither is wholly satisfied with where they've landed. They reconnect again, once more through music, and their stories pick up where they left off. But there's been a whole life lived between the stories, and the series asks whether lost love can ever really be reclaimed, and whether 'the road not taken' really is the better one. This is beautifully shot, with a great script and superb performances, especially from Bridgerton's Hunt and newcomer Walton-Smith, who infuse their portrayals with just the right amount of teen intensity and crackling tension. I adored this sweetly nostalgic series. You won't want to miss it. 'If we save the sea, we save our world,' says David Attenborough in the trailer for his latest landmark documentary special, which highlights the importance of the world's vast oceans and the part we all have to play in ensuring they remain healthy and viable. It's a marvel that Attenborough, now aged 99, is still involving himself with these types of programs. How blessed we are to still be hearing his voice. A cinematic journey into the deep. This one's for all of you with teen boys at home: chances are they'll be tuning in to the new season, which sees the four mates up to their old tricks, thriving in the chaos they create through their attempts to one-up each other in the embarrassment stakes. Real talk: this show is not for everyone, but if you like puerile humour and rapscallion hijinks (see also: teenage boys), then you're in the right place. Not for the faint of heart. There's something so wholesome about Play School — I miss the time I spent watching it daily with my little one. This week sees the start of a new spin-off, this one all about 'the beauty and diversity of Australia'. Different places are explored through the premise that regular presenter Teo is off having adventures, posting back parcels and videos showcasing where he's been. For curious little minds. He promised us he'd be back, and Arnold Schwarzenegger is nothing if not a man of his word. He's returning for another season of his surprisingly funny comedy, which has him star as an ageing CIA operative who realises his daughter, played by Monica Barbaro, is also working for his organisation. For years they've both been living double lives, unaware of each other's professions — great premise, no? This season they're joined by The Matrix's Carrie-Anne Moss. Count us in!
