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Anne Hathaway joked that Meryl Streep 'stole' her iconic cerulean sweater

Anne Hathaway as Andrea

The Devil Wears Prada's Anne Hathaway has jokingly called out co-star Meryl Streep for "stealing" her iconic blue sweater she wore in the original film.

Anne, 43, famously sported a cerulean sweater whilst playing Andrea "Andy" Sachs, an aspiring journalist who worked as an assistant for Miranda Priestly (Streep), the intensely fierce Runway Magazine editor, in the 2006 movie.

Meryl, 76, appeared on CBS' The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on April 1 to promote the sequel, which comes out on May 1, and sported a replica version of the famed garment.

And the 61-year-old eponymous talk show host mentioned that when Anne appeared on Wednesday's episode (15.04.26).

The Oscar-winner quipped: "Yeah, she stole my sweater!"

Playing along, Stephen agreed: "Yes, she stole your sweater."

Anne then joked: "That's where it went!"

Meryl donned a custom-designed blue sweater, created by Olympia Gayot for J.Crew, in collaboration with her stylist Micaela Erlanger.

According to People, Olympia said in a statement: "Meryl makes everything iconic. We just made sure this cerulean lived up to it."

Elsewhere, Meryl revealed that Anne requested no "so skeletal" models in The Devil Wears Prada 2 after the cast attended fashion shows during Milan Fashion Week when they shot the movie.

Meryl recalled in Harper’s Bazaar magazine's April 2026 The Now Issue: "[I was] struck by how not only beautiful and young - everyone seems young to me - but alarmingly thin the models were … I thought that all had been addressed years ago. Annie clocked it too.

"And she made a beeline to the producers about it, securing promises that the models in the show that we were putting together for our film would not be so skeletal! She’s a stand-up girl."

There has been tremendous excitement for The Devil Wears Prada 2, which was evident when Meryl and Anne's co-stars, including Stanley Tucci (Nigel Kipling) and Emily Blunt (Emily Charlton), were shooting scenes in New York last summer.

And the buzz made Meryl feel "unnerved"

She said: "Even though we were aware of the impact of the first film two decades ago, I think none of us were prepared for the ambush of both goodwill and avid attention that engulfed us.

"We needed police barriers and crowd control. Buses of fans turned up, and paparazzi swarmed and, in one case, kept jumping in front of the camera and the shot and got in a kerfuffle with crew!

"Annie kept her cool, but I was unnerved."

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