Stanley Tucci gives cryptic answer to question about ‘Devil Wears Prada’ sequel

Stanley Tucci has fans girding their loins over his potential involvement in The Devil Wears Prada sequel.

After Entertainment Weekly exclusively reported in July that all of the 2006 blockbuster hit’s stars and primary crew — including Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Tucci, director David Frankel, and producer Wendy Finerman — were in talks to return for a sequel to the beloved movie, Tucci gave a cryptic response to a question from The View cohost Sunny Hostin about a continuation.

“Sequel, maybe?” Hostin asked at the end of Tucci’s interview on Thursday, which he gave in support of his upcoming Oscar-buzzed drama Conclave.

“Sequel? Maybe!” Tucci responded, with a slight affectation to his voice as he smirked. “I can’t answer that!”

Released to the tune of $326 million in ticket sales around the world, positive critical reviews, and Oscar nominations, the original Devil Wears Prada film followed Andy Sachs (Hathaway) as she navigated the dizzying world of New York fashion journalism while working as an assistant to the intimidating Miranda Priestly (Streep), the cold, condescending editor-in-chief of the fictional Runway magazine.

Written by Aline Brosh McKenna, The Devil Wears Prada’s script adapted author Lauren Weisberger’s novel of the same name, which fictionalized her tenure as an assistant to Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.

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In 2021, EW reunited the cast and crew — including Hathaway, Streep, Blunt, Tucci, Adrian Grenier, Gisele Bündchen, Frankel, and costumer Patricia Field — for a 15th anniversary oral history interview about the making of the film, during which they addressed a potential sequel.

“[The studio] didn’t ask for [a sequel]. We had a meeting where we said, ‘What could we do if there was a sequel?’ Maybe it was stupid; we felt like, No, this story has been told.… Lauren eventually wrote another book following up 15 years later. We came to the same conclusion, that just following the characters wouldn’t be the same,” Frankel revealed, with Weisberger adding: “There have been a lot of conversations about it. I wouldn’t say it’s out of the realm of possibility.”

Also on The View in 2022, Hathaway expressed her idea for a potential sequel, if the film should continue.

“I just think that movie was in a different era. Now, everything has gone so digital, and that movie centered around the concept of producing a physical thing, and it’s just very different now,” she said at the time. “It is tempting to think about Andy and Emily needing to get Miranda her coffee and she’s somewhere in Europe and then along the way they pick up Stanley Tucci in Italy, who’s at a restaurant. It’s tempting, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. They could relaunch it, get some new people and do it.”