Did you know that Canadian actress Rachel McAdams turned down the same role three times? We tell you here for which film!
When Rachel McAdams doesn’t want a role, she doesn’t want a role! Ask the producers of The Devil Wears Prada, who absolutely wanted to see her play Andy Sachs, the tyrannical assistant editor-in-chief of a prestigious fashion magazine! Three times they asked the Canadian actress, and three times she said no…
“We started to negotiate with Anne Hathaway to find an agreement, and it was not going well with the studio”said director David Frankel in 2021 at Entertainment We’s microphoneekly. “Rachel McAdams was then offered the role, three times. The studio was determined to get her, and she was determined not to do the film.”
Why did Rachel McAdams want so badly not to play in The Devil Wears Prada? The actress never gave the answer, but Variety website argues that the Canadian then wanted to focus on a more discreet career after the successes of Never forget and Lolita despite me.
In the end, it is a stubborn Anne Hathaway, who has never stopped fighting for the role, who will be chosen to give the reply to Meryl Streep, while the studio wanted to hire a star. A nice move for the one who was then rather specialized in films for teenagers (Princess in spite of herself, Elle in the enchanted country).
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“Anne never gave up”told Entertainment Weekly Elizabeth Gabler, president of the Fox 2000 studio at the time of the negotiations. “She never stopped campaigning, making phone calls. She came to the producer’s office Carla Hacken to put a note on it that said ‘Hire me!’
In the end, it is Meryl Streep herself who will end up convincing the studio so that Anne Hathaway is cast, seduced by her performance in The Secret of Brokeback Mountain. An Anne Hathaway who has suddenly not only grilled politeness to Rachel McAdams, but also to big names like Natalie Portman, Kirsten Dunst and Scarlett Johansson. Just that.
The trailer for “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”, starring Rachel McAdams: