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Slate Money: Movies: The Devil Wears Prada

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Music, Tv & Film, Arts

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Slate Money Goes to the Movies, a miniseries in which Felix Salmon, Anna Szymanski, and a different guest each week discuss popular business-themed movies.  This week, Felix and Anna are joined by Edmund Lee of The New York Times to talk about The Devil Wears Prada. They discuss the film’s dated depiction of the magazine and fashion industries, Andy’s judgey friends, and of course, the IRL Miranda Priestly, Anna Wintour. Email: slatemoney@slate.com Podcast production by Jessamine Molli. Twitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to the Devil Wes Prada episode of Sleet Money Goes to the Movies.

0:20.0

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios, I'm here with Anishimansky, and we're here to talk about the Devil

0:27.4

Wes Prada with, frankly, the only person with whom it would be possible to talk about the

0:33.8

Devil Wes Prada. Edmond Lee of the New York Times and formerly of every other New York media

0:41.1

organization that you can name, welcome. Thank you, hello. We are going to talk about the plot,

0:49.2

the acting, the message, the script, and everything about this movie, which is a glorious

0:57.1

confection of the mid-2000s saved and elevated by an absolutely astonishing performance from

1:03.8

Meryl Streep. This is a fun one. People are going to enjoy this. Stay tuned for Sleet Money Goes to the Movies.

1:12.6

If you're looking for a new podcast, might I recommend our podcast? Hi, I'm Gabe Dunn, and I'm

1:24.0

Allison Raskin. We have a weekly show called Just Between Us where we explore every kind of topic

1:29.9

out there, from mental health to sexuality, to animal behavior, to science. We love to interview

1:38.3

fascinating people about their various expertise. We also answer listener questions and play a very

1:45.0

silly game called hypotheticals. You're not going to want to miss it. It's unhinged. And if you don't

1:50.3

want to trust our word for it because it's our show, you should know that the iHAR podcast awards

1:55.7

nominated us for Best Ensemble for 2023. That means that we are good at our jobs. Or we have good

2:03.2

chemistry. So check out Just Between Us every Wednesday. So Ed, where were you and how old were

2:15.0

you? This is the question I always ask. When you first watched the devil wears for it.

2:20.3

How old was I? Oh my god. That's what it was 2006, right? That's what it was not that long ago.

2:26.5

I guess it was. Yeah, that's a while ago. Yeah, that's a while ago. So I guess I'm in my 30s or

2:32.8

something. Yeah. And I actually did not watch it in the theater. I, you know, I got a review

2:38.9

copy of the book, you know, when it came out. And I flipped through the first chapter and the

2:43.9

writing was so terrible, I could not get past the first chapter. And I do know at the premiere,

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