Sydney Sweeney filmed a cameo for The Devil Wears Prada 2 — and then the editors cut it. Ten days before the long-awaited sequel opens in theaters, a source confirmed that Sweeney’s roughly three-minute scene was removed during post-production for creative reasons.
The scene would have appeared near the film’s opening and placed Sweeney alongside Emily Blunt’s character Emily Charlton at the Dior offices. In the scene, the main cast arrive at those offices to seek Emily’s help, where she is at work styling a celebrity client — with Sweeney playing herself. The sequence was designed to establish Emily’s post-Runway life as a stylist to the stars, but editors ultimately concluded the material disrupted the film’s flow.
A production source described it as a pure creative call. The team appreciated Sweeney’s participation, which made cutting her scene a difficult decision. The scene simply did not hold together structurally within its surrounding sequence. It remains unclear whether the decision came from director David Frankel or from Disney and 20th Century Studios. Neither the studio nor representatives for Sweeney have publicly commented.
Speculation about Sweeney’s involvement had been building since last summer, when photographs of a hooded figure on the New York City set sparked months of fan theorizing about her role in the sequel. The news that she was filmed, then cut, has drawn polarized reactions online — some fans expressing disappointment, others openly celebrating her removal.
Sweeney rose to prominence through HBO’s Euphoria and has since become one of Hollywood’s most in-demand actresses, though her recent run has included some misfires alongside the hits, including Eden and the boxing biopic Christy. She is currently starring in Euphoria’s third season, which premiered April 12.
The cut is far from unprecedented in Hollywood. Quentin Tarantino removed Tim Roth’s scenes from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Christopher Lee was edited out of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King — both cases where footage that seemed right during production simply didn’t survive the editing room.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 reunites Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway nearly 20 years after the original. In the sequel, Hathaway’s character Andy Sachs has climbed from assistant to veteran fashion editor, called back to Runway magazine as Streep’s Miranda Priestly fights to keep the publication alive amid the collapse of print media. The film opens May 1.
