Daniel Radcliffe recalls “Harry Potter” cast's incredulous reaction to “Devil Wears Prada” advance-copies scene
Daniel Radcliffe recalls “Harry Potter” cast's incredulous reaction to “Devil Wears Prada” advance-copies scene
Ryan ColemanWed, March 11, 2026 at 2:46 AM UTC
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Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter; 'The Devil Wears Prada' star Meryl StreepCredit: Warner Bros; 20th Century Fox
The Devil Wears Prada has been praised for its realistic depiction of the cutthroat fashion industry, but Daniel Radcliffe sees one scene as pure fantasy.
In the beloved workplace dramedy, Meryl Streep's imperious editor Miranda Priestley commands her shellshocked assistant Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway) to secure copies of the next, still-unpublished entry in the Harry Potter book series, which the former boy-who-lived called out as fantasy during a recent appearance on Bustle's One Nightstand podcast.
When asked if even he and his costars were treated to such privileged access while shooting the films, he told host Charlotte Owen, "No, you had to wait 'til drop day, as well. I remember in the movie The Devil Wears Prada, there's like a subplot that she has to find a version of Harry Potter before [it's published]. I remember we all saw that and were like, 'Good luck.'"
Radcliffe continued to explain that while Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury was intensely protective of early exposures as the series unfolded in print, author J.K. Rowling did leak a detail here and there.
"I think Alan Rickman was the only person from the cast who was told anything in advance," he recalled, but he, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, and the rest of Potter's youth ensemble "certainly didn't get anything."
Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, and Rupert Grint in 'Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows - Part 2' (2011)Credit: Jaap Buitendijk/Warner Bros.
Rowling told Radcliffe in 2000 that she briefed the actor behind Professor Severus Snap with some helpful advance character detail.
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"I told him really early on that Snape had been in love with Lily," the mother of Radcliffe's titular character, the author revealed. "That's why he hated James," Harry's father, and "that's why he projected this this amount of dislike onto Harry."
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Radcliffe's costar Bonnie Wright, who played Ginny Weasley in all eight Potter films, also was frustrated by the Devil Wears Prada advance-copy scene's suggestion that such a thing was even possible, she told Nylon (via Digital Spy).
"Actually, the most grating thing I've ever seen in a movie is in The Devil Wears Prada, when those two little kids get the Harry Potter books ahead of time," she told the magazine. "I was like, 'Are you kidding? That would never, ever, ever happen!'"
You can watch Radcliffe's full interview on the One Nightstand podcast above.
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