Anne Hathaway and Adrian Grenier inThe Devil Wears Prada(2006).Photo: 20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Collection
Anne Hathawayis forgiving of herThe Devil Wears Pradacharacter’s love interest, Nate — even if many fans are not.
“Do you agree with fans that Nate was the true villain ofThe Devil Wears Prada?” a fan asked Hathaway during Monday night’sWatch What Happens Live, much toAndy Cohen’sdelight.
“Yes! He was!” echoed Cohen, 54.
“Andy’s answered for me,” the 39-year-old actress joked, before going on to share her disagreement with the host: “No, I’m sorry, I don’t. I think that they were bothvery young, and figuring things out.”
In the 2006 hit movie, Hathaway portrayed Northwestern journalism grad Andy Sachs, who finds her personal relationships slipping with both her boyfriend, Nate (Adrian Grenier), and her friends as she navigates the demands of being assistant to Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), the blunt and brutal editor-in-chief ofRunwaymagazine.
Andy ultimately ends up choosing neither Nate nor Miranda, as theOscar-nominated film ends with her finally settling into a journalism job she’s happy with.
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In the years since its release, many fans have been oppositional to Nate’s character, whom they see as the true villain in Andy’s story — not her vicious boss, Miranda.
Grenier himself acknowledgedthe response to Nate’s behaviorfrom fans during aTheDevil Wears Pradareunion interview with Entertainment Weekly last year. He was more understanding of the fans' opposition to Nate.
“I didn’t see some of the subtleties and the nuance of this character and what it represented in the film until the wisdom of the masses came online and started topush against the characterand throw him under the bus, and I got flak,” said Grenier, 46.
“All those memes that came out were shocking to me,” he continued. “It hadn’t occurred to me until I started to really think about it … in many ways, he’s very selfish and self-involved, it was all about him; he wasn’t extending himself to support Andy in her career.”
Anne Hathaway in 2022 (L) andThe Devil Wears Prada(2006).Getty; 20th Century Fox
Last month, Hathaway gave fans a treat with aNew York Fashion Weekensemble that seemed anode to her character, Andy.
But the fashion moment was “an accident,” Hathaway confirmed earlier this month on theTODAYshow as hostSavannah Guthriepieced everything together.
Even her hair — curtain bangs and a high ponytail — seemed to be a nod to herDevil Wears Pradacharacter. Hathaway said when her hairstylist put her locks into a ponytail, she looked in the mirror and thought to herself, " ‘Oh that’s funny, Iwonder if anybody will notice?’ "
“We noticed,” Guthrie, 50, and Hathaway said in unison.
source: people.com
