It’s difficult to believe now, but Emily Blunt was once asked to be more fashion-forward. Blunt was at 20th Century Fox Studios (now called 20th Century Studios) to audition for another movie when someone asked her if she’d audition for a film that the person described as “just this little thing with Meryl Streep.” Blunt was running late for a flight and felt “frantic and chaotic” as she read for the role of Miranda Priestly’s first assistant, who was also named Emily, for—you guessed it—2006’s The Devil Wears Prada. (Streep played the role of Priestly, a fashion magazine editor.) Blunt almost missed her flight and eventually got a callback from the movie’s director, David Frankel, asking her to come in for another audition. (Blunt said at an event called An Evening With…Emily Blunt—held Thursday night at The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in L.A.—that nobody knew who she was at the time of her The Devil Wears Prada audition.)
