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Anna Wintour's reaction; Designer cameo warning; Tucci marrying Felicity Blunt; Costume budget; Clint Eastwood-inspired whisper; 'Everybody wants to be us' line change; Deleted thank-you scene; John Krasinski's 75 viewings
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- Anna Wintour (transcribed 'Anna Wintor') reportedly liked the movie despite initial skepticism and enjoyed Streep for her decisive nature.
- Tabloid talk about her divorce is attributed to the New York Post; the movie is said to have rehabilitated her and corrected the book's portrayal, so she probably likes it.
- She reportedly warned designers invited to cameo that they would be banished from the magazine; nobody knows whether that is true, but Vogue and other magazines avoided mentioning the book.
- Streep was not on the cover of Vogue for a very long time after the movie, though she was recently.
- Six years after filming, Stanley Tucci married Felicity Blunt, Emily Blunt's sister; the transcript also has a belief that he broke up with 'E. Falco' for her.
- The first bag Miranda carries is a Prada bag.
- Giselle agreed to be in the movie only if she did not have to play a model.
- Costuming cost over a million dollars despite designer loans, under Patricia Field of Sex and the City, who got an Oscar nomination; the panel thinks that is low.
- Hathaway went from a size six to a size four during filming.
- Streep told Variety in 2006 she took Miranda's soft speaking style from Clint Eastwood, who never raises his voice so everyone leans in; the whisper is called what makes the performance.
- Bosses who stay insanely calm are said to destabilize the people around them.
- Miranda's line about everybody wanting to be 'us' originally said 'me'; Streep changed it as too self-involved.
- A double standard is argued: men respected as difficult method actors versus Streep and Hathaway labeled problem children, though Streep is called an anomaly nobody can overrule.
- A deleted scene where Andy saves Miranda and Miranda thanks her was cut for making her seem likable; it surfaced online two years ago, and one panelist refuses to watch it, likening it to the Almost Famous extended cut.
- In one more piece of research, John Krasinski has reportedly watched the film 75 times, which ties one panelist.