Stanley Tucci Returns as Nigel in The Devil Wears Prada 2
stanley tucci returns as Nigel in The Devil Wears Prada 2, taking Miranda Priestly’s second-in-command back into the sequel twenty years after the original mid-00s film. The new movie reunites the old team and keeps Nigel in the same post, which preserves one of the first film’s clearest power relationships.
Miranda Priestly’s second-in-command
Stanley Tucci plays Nigel again, and the character is still Miranda Priestly’s loyal, worldly, privately melancholy second-in-command. That setup gives the sequel an immediate anchor inside the fashion-and-publishing machinery, instead of treating the return as a cameo-level nod to the earlier film.
Meryl Streep returns as Miranda Priestly, with Anne Hathaway back as Andrea “Andy” Sachs and Emily Blunt returning as Emily. David Frankel directs, and Aline Brosh McKenna wrote the screenplay, which keeps the sequel tied to the same creative spine that made the original film work as a Manhattan workplace comedy.
Twenty years later in fashion
The sequel follows the fashion and publishing worlds twenty years later, and that time gap is the point: the old hierarchy is back, but the industry around it has changed. The review frames the film as a reunion of the original cast and creative team, which makes Tucci’s return less about nostalgia alone and more about whether the original dynamic still plays in a different era.
The movie also sends the story to Miranda’s place in the Hamptons and into Milan, giving Nigel more room than a simple reprise would allow. Those locations signal scale, but the real draw remains the same: Tucci’s Nigel is still on the inside, still close to Miranda, and still carrying the quiet edge that made the role more than office support.
Runway’s old team
The original The Devil Wears Prada followed Andrea “Andy” Sachs at Runway magazine in the mid-00s, and the sequel brings that team back without pretending the last twenty years did not happen. For viewers who remember the first film as a tightly run workplace story, Tucci’s return tells you the sequel is leaning on structure, not just recognition.
That is the practical reason this cast list matters: Streep, Hathaway, Blunt, and Tucci are all back, with Frankel and McKenna returning too. The sequel is built to feel like the same machine turned on again, and Nigel’s return is the piece that keeps Miranda’s world from looking like a replica without its center.
