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Miranda Priestly is back, and she’s older, wiser, and maybe not as evil as we thought. In this video, ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ star Meryl Streep breaks down if Miranda was a villain in the traditional sense or simply adapting to her environment in the cutthroat fashion world. Tune in to see how this editor-in-chief is adapting to a changing world in the upcoming sequel.

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00:00Why they called her a villain in the first film was because her directness and her demanding,
00:07determined nature to get the job done. And she expected a lot of herself. And so she expected
00:15a lot of everybody that worked for her and didn't really tolerate, didn't have time for
00:20the mess. And that was a successful way of moving in the world then.
00:27That was before iPhones were invented. That was before the world changed. That was before
00:33journalism exploded and, not exploded, but kind of is disintegrating in certain ways.
00:41Is it imploded?
00:41Yeah, imploded. I'm not sure she's changed in her nature, but she is 76, not 56. And whatever rounding
00:52out of a personality comes with that kind of reckoning in a world that's changing, shifting.
01:00Am I going to be able to determine the outcome of this company? Am I going to be able to
01:06sustain it?
01:07What am I going to have to do to compromise to make that happen? It's all those little
01:13negotiations that everybody is making with their jobs now with the uncertainties in the workplace.
01:20So yeah, I think she's different to that degree because the world's different.
01:25you will want to have to choose the way to live for you.
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