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The Devil Wears Prada didn’t start as a family affair for Emily Blunt, but nearly 20 years later, it has morphed into so much more than “just” a movie.
While in the midst of filming the long-awaited sequel to her hit 2006 comedy costarring Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep, Blunt, 42, reflected on meeting her now-brother-in-law Stanley Tucci in a new cover story for PORTER magazine.
“It has deep emotional roots for a lot of us,” said the Smashing Machine actress, who returns for the second Prada film alongside Tucci, 64, Hathaway 42, and Streep, 76. “It’s not just doing a movie.”
Tucci would go on to marry the actress’s older sister Felicity Blunt in 2012, and the couple later welcomed two children together: son Matteo, 10, and daughter Emilia, 7.
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And while the family gets along swimmingly, “He’s not good for your Devil Wears Prada diet though, because he’s cooking pasta and making me drink martinis with him every night,” Blunt told PORTER.
“He was like, ‘Em, do you want some pomodoro pasta?’ I’m like, ‘I do, but I have to be in Dior couture today, so we’ll see,’ ” she joked of her foodie brother-in-law.
Blunt has not been shy about her love for Tucci over the years, telling PEOPLE in March 2022 that he is “always looking immaculate head to toe.”
Additionally, “He’s an all-around renaissance man who knows the way to everyone’s hearts. And it’s through having a damn good time,” she said. “He’s frighteningly bright, quick to laugh, loves to be laughed at, charismatic, warm and energetic.”
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She even recalled noticing others admiring the spoils of his cooking passion at work: “He would come to the set with gorgeous fried risotto balls and pasta that would leave everyone just abandoning their nibbled-on kale chips and salivating over what he’d brought in.”
“He’s authentic and irreverent in the best way ever,” Blunt also raved to PEOPLE. “He just gets life, and I absolutely worship the guy.”
Reflecting on how The Devil Wears Prada has impacted the cast’s lives, Blunt told PORTER, “When we made the first movie, none of us expected the meteoric life that it would have and the impact it would have on people.”
She continued, “As my husband [John Krasinski] said to me the other day, this is people’s nostalgia bank. They’ve watched this with their families 50, 60 times; they’ve watched it when their parents are sick; they’ve watched it when they’re sad, when they’ve gone through a breakup.”
“Of course, I meet people who will quote the movie to me, but I’m not sure I’ve ever been hit with a bombardment of the realization of what the movie is to people coming back to the film set,” Blunt added. “And that’s what we all feel, holy cow. That’s what everyone says, every day: holy s—.”
The Smashing Machine is in theaters Oct. 3, while The Devil Wears Prada 2 hits theaters May 1, 2026.
