Gird your loins! Stanley Tucci may very well be again on display screen as fashionista Nigel Kipling in a sequel to The Satan Wears Prada.
In a new interview with Variety, Tucci, 64, was requested to offer an replace on the rumored follow-up to the hit 2006 comedy set at fictional trend journal Runway.
“I do know they’re engaged on it,” he advised the outlet. “If it occurs, I might be so glad, however I can not offer you any data. In any other case, I’ll go to the actor’s jail or one thing.”
He added that making the unique film, which was primarily based on Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel “was the most effective experiences ever.”
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The comedy starred Meryl Streep as demanding Runway editor Miranda Priestly, Emily Blunt as Priestly’s primary assistant, and Anne Hathaway because the hapless second assistant who will get a Cinderella makeover courtesy of Nigel.
Discuss of a sequel has ticked up in current months. In December, on the Pink Sea Worldwide Movie Pageant in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Blunt mentioned there have been “rumblings” of one other film, in line with The Hollywood Reporter.
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“There’s stuff churning round. However I don’t know if I can affirm something. However we might all be delighted,” she continued.
Tucci additionally spoke with PEOPLE in October about doubtlessly reuniting with Streep and his former costars.
“I believe we might have the most effective occasions ever,” mentioned Tucci, who was at the hours of darkness about what the story would encompass.
“I do not actually know. I have not [heard] concerning the plot or something. I actually have not,” he mentioned.
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Although Tucci had an exquisite time on the unique film — which earned greater than $300 million worldwide — he just lately advised Vainness Honest he struggled to search out work afterwards.
“After The Satan Wears Prada, I couldn’t get a job, and I didn’t fairly perceive that, however that’s simply the best way it was. So I went and did stuff that I didn’t essentially wish to do, however I did it,” the Conclave star mentioned.