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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the Movies. I'm Jonathan Braylock, I'm Dra. Milligan, and I'm James III, and we're those of Black

Weekend Jump in Hollywood. It's a comedic podcast that reviews films with leading actors of color

and analyze them in the context of race and Hollywood's diversity issues. Yeah, listen to new episodes

on Mondays, find us wherever you get your podcasts. I don't care where you get them, I just want you

to listen. Don't threaten the people we need them to listen. Okay, okay, okay, sorry guys, listen,

listen to us. Yeah, put on a happy voice. So Ed, where were you and how old were you? This is

the question I always ask. When you first watched the Devil Wes Prada. How old was I? Oh my God,

that's what it was 2006, right? It was not that long ago. I guess it was. That's a while ago.

Yeah, that's a while ago. So I guess I'm in my 30s or something. Yeah, and I actually did not

watch it in the theater. I got a review copy of the book when it came out, and I flipped through

the first chapter, and the writing was so terrible, I could not get past the first chapter,

and I do know at the premiere, I wasn't at the premiere, but I do know there's this whole

kerfuffle in the media world about like, you know, Lauren Weisberg of course going to be there,

the author of this sort of Romana clef, and Anna Winter had been invited, and she wasn't going to

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