‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ and the Movies That Feel Like Our Lives
The Big Picture
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 112 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Sean Fennessy. I'm Amanda Dobbins. |
| 0:17.7 | And this is the Big Picture at Conversation show about angels and devils. |
| 0:21.6 | Today on the show we are digging into two films that excavate our mid-aughts past. The big one is the highly anticipated sequel The Devil Wares Prada 2. Later in this episode, I will be joined by Chandler LeVak, the writer-director of not one but two films coming out this year. Mile N. Kicks, her portrait of a young music |
| 0:38.0 | writer in Canada, circa 2011, as well as the Netflix comedy roommates, which comes from Adam Sandler's |
| 0:43.1 | Happy Madison. Chandler and I had eerily similar young adult experiences as music writers and movie |
| 0:48.5 | nerds had a wonderful talk about these worlds colliding and how she put them in her movies. Stick |
| 0:53.7 | around for that conversation. |
| 0:54.7 | But first, we got to talk about Amanda's past and her future right after this. |
| 1:00.9 | Heda, it's your big McDonald's hunger calling. |
| 1:03.7 | And it's not just any kind of hunger. |
| 1:05.2 | It's the kind that calls for big arch. |
| 1:07.2 | Start with juicy beef, cheddar cheese and big arch sauce. |
| 1:10.6 | Oh, and don't forget those crispy onions. |
| 1:12.9 | Hungry? You are now. |
| 1:16.9 | Saved from 11 a.m. subject to availability. Price and participation may vary. |
| 1:21.8 | Okay, Anna Wintour. You ready for this? Yeah, it did feel very fitting to be sitting silently in my sunglasses throughout that entire intro. You know, maybe I should do that for every episode. Consider it, yeah. Yeah, I'm going to leave them on for like the big question, and then I'll be a normal person and take them off. Also, I should just say the sunglasses are the one thing I'm wearing that's not Prada. I'm sorry. It didn't occur to me until this morning that I should source Prada sunglasses along with everything else. |
| 1:47.2 | I don't know why. thing I'm wearing that's not Prada. I'm sorry. It didn't occur to me until this morning that I |
| 1:44.5 | should source Prada sunglasses along with everything else. I don't know why. I'm imperfect. |
| 1:49.1 | What were you just talking to? Were you speaking to the camera? Various cameras, people watching |
| 1:53.8 | my other selves, you know, regrets. I have a few. But here we are. I'm doing the best that I can. We're here. Your fandom has come for you in your 40s, just like it came for me. And we're here to talk about the Devil Wars Prodigitia. The film is directed as was the original by David Frankel. It's written as was the original by Alien Brosh McKenna. It stars Merrill Street, |
| 2:18.3 | Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci. They were all in the first one. And this movie is about |
| 2:24.5 | Andy Sacks returning to the world of Miranda Priestley at the famed magazine runway. It's also about |
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