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Anna Carey

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206 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

And the implication is like, look, she slimmed down too.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

And, you know, it's not necessarily seen as a bad thing.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

You know, there's never really an implication that...

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

this obsession with skinniness and dieting is anything more than a joke.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

But, you know, they were going to be like 12 year olds seeing this film in 2006 and thinking, oh, my God, she's not slender.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

Because it doesn't do it savagely enough in that sense, you know, and she still clearly has bought into that.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

And she looks amazing, you know, before and after.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

Yeah, I mean, I think in America, you know, there's still that fetishization of work with a capital W and like the amount of time you commit to your career is a virtue.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

And that's still very much an American pop culture.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

Now, I mean, I think the fact that Miranda is actually a bully, possibly somebody would have gone to HR now.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

But again, these things still happen.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

So I don't know.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

I mean, I'm very interested to see how they...

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

If they change that up in the new film, because like in the original, she is literally, you know, throwing her her coat in her assistant's faces.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

She's expecting them to get unpublished Harry Potter books, you know, for her kids, which Andy manages to do miraculously.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

You know, there's a lot of insane demands that are essentially your job is done.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

you're going to have to do the impossible or you're going to get fired.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

And that possibly still does happen.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

But yeah, it's very much highlighting a time when I guess it was easier to get away with it.

Brendan O'Connor
“The last hurrah, for a golden age of fashion magazines” the enduring appeal of The Devil Wears Prada

Yeah.