Kate Hudson recently spoke about turning down a role in The Devil Wears Prada, saying she regrets not adjusting her schedule to take the part. Speaking on Capital FM, she shared that she was originally approached to play Andy Sachs, the assistant to a high-profile fashion editor, a role that later went to Anne Hathaway.
“That was a bad call. And it was like a timing thing,” Hudson said. “It was one of those things where I couldn’t do it, and I should’ve made it happen, and I didn’t.”
She recalled watching the film and realizing she had missed out. “That was one where when I saw it I was like, ugh. But again, everything happens for a reason. That was a real like, ‘I should’ve made that work.’”
Directed by David Frankel and written by Aline Brosh McKenna, The Devil Wears Prada follows an aspiring journalist navigating the pressures of working for a powerful magazine editor, played by Meryl Streep. The film was a major box office success, earning over $326 million worldwide and receiving two Academy Award nominations.
At the time the film was in production, Hudson was working on several other films, including How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), The Skeleton Key (2005), You, Me and Dupree (2006), Fool’s Gold (2008), and My Best Friend’s Girl (2008). In 2009, she starred alongside Hathaway in Bride Wars.
“It’s funny, it’s waves of things that are happening and people shooting at different times,” Hudson said. “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?”
A follow-up to The Devil Wears Prada is in early development at Disney, with McKenna set to write the script. No casting details have been announced.
Hathaway previously expressed doubts about revisiting the story. Speaking on The View in 2022, she said, “I don’t know if there can be [a sequel]. I just think that movie was in a different era. Now everything’s gone so digital and that movie is centered around the concept of producing a physical thing, and it’s just very different.”
