After 20 years, the supposed real-life inspiration behind Emily Blunt‘s The Devil Wears Prada character has come forward.
Leslie Fremar, a former Vogue assistant, recently claimed that the character of Emily Charlton was based on her, recalling when she met the actress behind the character in the 2006 movie.
When asked if she thinks Emily is based on her, Fremar said Vogue‘s The Run-Through podcast, “I know I am. Yes. Correct.”
“I have met Emily Blunt,” she noted. “I was always like, ‘If I meet Emily Blunt, what would I do?’ So one day I was getting a massage at the Greenwich Hotel and she was actually at the spa herself, and I wanted to say something and I didn’t. So I let that moment pass me and then a client of mine invited me over for dinner to her house and there was like seven people there
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