Simone Ashley Says The Devil Wears Prada 2 Reviews Bring 31-Year-Old Career Milestone
Simone Ashley says the devil wears prada 2 reviews are tied to the “most fun moments” of her career so far. At 31, she also says working with Meryl Streep on the sequel was “kind of a bit of a masterclass really,” a rare behind-the-scenes comment from a cast member on a film still drawing attention 20 years after the original.
Simone Ashley and Meryl Streep
Ashley said she spent a lot of time with Streep while playing Miranda Priestly’s new first assistant. That puts her in the sequel’s working core, not on the margins, and it gives the production a direct line between one of the franchise’s defining performers and a newer face still expanding her screen identity after breaking through globally as Kate in Bridgerton.
“It was kind of a bit of a masterclass really,” Ashley said of the time she spent around Streep. For a sequel built on the pressure and precision of a fashion office, that kind of on-set access is the real production value: it shapes how a new character lands inside a world audiences already know by feel.
Amari and the comedy shift
Ashley plays Amari in The Devil Wears Prada 2, and she described the role as the opposite of Emily Blunt’s character in the original movie. “Emily (Emily Blunt), in the original movie, the comedy comes from a place of this ball of anxiety,” Ashley said. “But Amari is kind of the opposite.”
She called Amari “very confident, very grounded,” adding that “the way she holds herself is quite regal and poised.” The comic engine, in her telling, comes from “that sassiness, that chicness,” which suggests the sequel is not trying to recycle the first film’s nervous energy but to give this character a cleaner, more controlled rhythm.
20 years after 2005
The original The Devil Wears Prada was released in 2005, and the sequel now pairs Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway with Ashley in a role built to stand apart from Emily. That matters because sequels live or die on whether the new cast members feel like additions rather than imitations, and Ashley is clearly being framed as more than a substitute for the old office archetype.
For readers tracking The Devil Wears Prada 2 reviews, Ashley’s comments point to a sequel trying to win on performance detail rather than nostalgia alone. If the final film matches the discipline she describes, Amari could be the kind of character that keeps the franchise moving instead of merely reopening it.
