The Devil Wears Prada (with Jameela Jamil)
WHAT WENT WRONG
Sad Boom Media
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
When director David Frankel signed on to adapt the novel The Devil Wears Prada into a movie, he didn’t realize he’d be up against the real Miranda Priestly herself: Anna Wintour.
This week Chris, Lizzie, and very special guest Jameela Jamil discover how it took 5 tries to find the right screenwriter, why Anne Hathaway was the 9th choice to play Andy Sachs, and how fear of retribution from Anna Wintour almost shut the whole thing down. Find out why Meryl Streep went method with her role, how Emily Blunt totally transformed her character, and why a scandal brewing in Anne Hathaway’s personal life bled over onto set.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and action, and action. Hello, dear listeners, and welcome back to another episode of What Went Wrong, your favorite |
| 0:24.3 | podcast full stop that just so happens to be about movies and how it's nearly impossible |
| 0:28.7 | to make them, let alone a good one, let alone the movie that Damien Chiselle saw and said, |
| 0:34.1 | not my tempo. |
| 0:35.1 | We're talking about the original whiplash, The Devil Wares Prada, |
| 0:39.6 | one of my favorite e-watches. As always, I'm Chris Winterbauer, joined by Lizzie Bassett. And Lizzie, |
| 0:44.6 | who else do we have here today? We have an unbelievably special guest for this episode. I am so |
| 0:50.3 | excited to talk to her about this. We have actor, writer, advocate, music producer, |
| 0:56.6 | what can't she do, and host of the podcast Wrong Turns, which I really, really love. |
| 1:01.5 | It's Jamila Jamil. Thank you so much for being here and welcome. Hello, thank you for having me. |
| 1:06.8 | I love films, so I'm always excited to talk about them. Well, I think this one is a particularly good fit for several reasons that I can't wait to dive into, but I also just want to say, I really love your podcast so much. You're a very generous host, which I feel like is a rare thing, and you're so funny, but you also just like really clearly make the guests so comfortable, and it's |
| 1:28.7 | very lovely. So go listen to Wrong Turns with Jamila Jamil if you have not yet. |
| 1:32.6 | Oh, thank you. And if anyone wants to come see me live in LA, I'm doing my first ever. |
| 1:37.3 | Netflix is a joke festival, which is very intimidating as a non-comedian to enter a full-on |
| 1:42.9 | comedians festival. But I will have, with me, |
| 1:46.5 | Lamorne Morris, the Winston from the New Girl. And I will have Lisa Trager and Chris Fleming, |
| 1:53.1 | the man of the moment, as my guest. So I'm very excited. So the tickets are available now. |
| 1:58.0 | But there, anyway, if anyone wants to come see it live, it's so much crazy alive, even than in the room. |
| 2:03.5 | That sounds wonderful. |
| 2:04.6 | All right. |
| 2:04.8 | Well, so let's just dive right in. |
| 2:06.9 | How we usually start this is I will ask both of you, and I'll start with you, Jamila, if that's all right. |
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