Meryl Streep's key condition for agreeing to star in Devil Wears Prada 2

Key developments are emerging from the global stage. There was one way we'd agree to do Devil Wears Prada 2, says Meryl Streep 13 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Annabel Rackham Culture reporter Walt Disney Studios Meryl Streep returns to her role as Miranda Priestly, the intimidating Runway Magazine editor-in-chief who is said to be modelled on Vogue's Anna Wintour When a Devil Wears Prada sequel was announced, 20 years after the release of the original, the one question on many people's lips was "why? For Meryl Streep, who plays the Anna Wintour-inspired Miranda Priestly, editor-in-chief of Runway Magazine, there was a key condition for taking part. "There was one way that we would sign on to do a sequel," she tells News.

"If it spoke to the moment. " Indeed, the film mirrors real-life developments in the world of journalism - staffing cuts, dwindling print numbers and digital domination. "Everything has to have its own necessity for being - even the frothiest sort of fun movie," Streep says.

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Co-star Stanley Tucci, who plays Miranda's creative director, Nigel Kipling, adds that the film is "dealing with the issues of today - the loss of control that journalists have because of social media and AI". Walt Disney Studios Stanley Tucci returns as Nigel Kipling, creative director at Runway, and Anne Hathaway returns as Andy Sachs, who has a new job at the magazine 'Enjoy the nostalgia' It was always going to be difficult trying to replicate the success of the original 2006 film, which is still regularly quoted in popular culture and has recently become a West End musical. But rather than replicating the original, is the new film more a reflection of changing times?

"One of the things I think the film does really well is show you have to participate in the world you want to live," says Anne Hathaway, who plays Runway's new features editor Andy Sachs. "I hope people realise the fate of journalism really rests on them and if you believe in it, you believe it's important - I personally do. " Three-time Oscar winner Streep "absolutely hopes that people do take hope from this".

"It sounds like we've made Spotlight or something but no, we've made The Devil Wears Prada - there's a lot of fun and fashion," she jokes. This is echoed by Tucci, who calls the film "a nice bit of escapism" at a time when "the world is in a very chaotic place". Emily Blunt, who also stars in the second film, is able to call Tucci family thanks to the first instalment (she introduced her sister to Tucci at the original film's premiere - they've now been married for 14 years).

She says she wants "people to have a joy bomb - go with their friends, laugh, cheer and enjoy the nostalgia bank that the movie is".

The development has drawn wide international attention, with diplomatic circles watching closely.