The real-life “Emily” that inspired Emily Blunt’s character in The Devil Wears Prada is coming forward.
Speaking with Vogue‘s The Run-Through, celebrity stylist Leslie Fremar revealed that she’s the inspiration for “Emily,” the assistant to Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly in the film and colleague to Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs.
Lauren Weisberger released the bestselling novel the first film is adapted from more than two decades ago after serving as a junior assistant for Anna Wintour, the inspiration behind Streep’s Miranda Priestly, and fictionalized her time working for Wintour and Vogue. Fremar hired Weisberger and worked with her for eight months.
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“I definitely told her a million girls would kill for the job,” Fremar revealed, referencing a memorable quote from the film. “That was definitely my line because I actually really believed that, and I knew that she didn’t necessarily wanna be there.”
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