8.
Before
accepting
the
part,
Streep
made
a
very
Miranda
Priestly-like
move.
Despite
having
already
collected
two
Oscars
and
another
11
nominations
by
that
point,
Streep
hadn’t
quite
mastered
the
art
of
asking
for
more
pay.
But
this
time,
she
spoke
up.
“The
offer
was,
to
my
mind
slightly,
if
not
insulting,
not
perhaps
reflective
of
my
actual
value
to
the
project,”
she
explained
to
Variety. “There
was
my ‘goodbye
moment,’
and
then
they
doubled
the
offer.
I
was
55,
and
I
had
just
learned,
at
a
very
late
date,
how
to
deal
on
my
own
behalf.”
9.
She
had
other
demands
as
well.
Cautious
about
turning
Miranda
into
a
caricature,
Streep
insisted
on
two
scenes:
What
she
called “the
business
of
fashion,”
in
which
the
trendsetter
schooled
Andy
on
her
cerulean
sweater,
and “a
scene
where
she
is
without
her
armor,
the
unpeeled
scene
in
the
hotel
room.”
The
white
hair
was
her
creation
as
well,
Streep
turning
up
with
her
icy
locks
for
a
sit-down
with
the
head
of
the
studio.
As
director
Frankel
recalled
to
EW, “Meryl
channeled
Miranda
in
that
meeting,
and
there
was
no
conversation
about
the
hair;
they
looked
into
Meryl’s
eyes
and
never
said
a
word.”
