Gird your loins! Oscar winners Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway will pair up once again in The Devil Wears Prada 2, the sequel to the 2006 dramedy about an aspiring journalist (Hathaway) who finds herself working as an assistant to a ruthless fashion magazine editor (Streep). While the sequel is coming 20 years after Streep and Hathaway first walked the Runway halls together, some trends stay the same, and these actors remain in fashion.
Streep’s five-decade career has garnered her three Academy Awards, eight Golden Globes, four Emmys, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and more, with seemingly countless instantly recognizable movies to her name: Sophie’s Choice, Out of Africa, The Bridges of Madison County, Mamma Mia!, Julie & Julia, The Iron Lady, and many more. She’ll soon star in director Cameron Crowe’s Joni Mitchell biopic. Hathaway, meanwhile — who has an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and an Emmy — got her start playing two different princesses in The Princess Diaries and Ella Enchanted before moving on to more grown-up roles, including in Brokeback Mountain, Love & Other Drugs, The Dark Knight Rises, Les Misérables, and Interstellar.
But the hits don’t stop there. Put on the Chanel boots and check out these other Hathaway and Streep performances on Netflix.
This dramedy, directed by Steven Soderbergh, from a screenplay by Scott Z. Burns, is based on author Jake Bernstein’s nonfiction book about the Panama Papers scandal, Secrecy World. Gary Oldman (Slow Horses) and Antonio Banderas (The Mask of Zorro) star in the movie as a pair of lawyers who serve as narrators. They tell three stories about people who were impacted by their company, Mossack Fonseca, and its international money laundering scheme. Streep plays Ellen Martin, a woman who’s trying to get a life insurance payout for her husband’s (James Cromwell) untimely death.
When sophisticated British con artist Josephine Chesterfield (Hathaway) meets up-and-coming Australian grifter Penny Rust (Rebel Wilson), Josephine dismisses her on the spot. While they run the same racket — conning wealthy men out of their money — their methods couldn’t be more different. But when Penny begs Josephine to teach her how to up her game, the pair band together for the ultimate scam against a seemingly bumbling tech billionaire (Alex Sharp). This comedy is a remake of the 1988 Steve Martin (Cheaper by the Dozen) and Michael Caine (The Cider House Rules) flick Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which is a remake of 1964’s Bedtime Story starring Marlon Brando (The Godfather).
A comet is hurtling toward Earth, and two astronomers — played by Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another) and Jennifer Lawrence (Die My Love) — are trying to get anyone to care. This Oscar-nominated black comedy by director Adam McKay (The Big Short) follows Dr. Randall Mindy (DiCaprio) and Kate Dibiasky (Lawrence) as they scream into the void about the end of the world. Streep plays Janie Orlean, the President of the United States.
Directed by Dee Rees (Mudbound) and based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Joan Didion, The Last Thing He Wanted is a political thriller starring Hathaway as Elena McMahon, a journalist who becomes entangled in her father’s (Willem Dafoe) arms deal while trying to break a story. The movie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020 and also co-stars Ben Affleck (The Accountant), Rosie Perez (Do the Right Thing), Edi Gathegi (Superman), Mel Rodriguez (The Last Man on Earth), and Toby Jones (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy).
Ryan Murphy (Glee) directs this movie based on the Broadway musical of the same name. Streep stars as Dee Dee Allen, a Tony Award–winning actress whose latest play closes after opening night. But when she and her castmate Barry Glickman (James Corden) learn about a cause they think can revitalize their images, they jump at the chance. Now, they’re angling to help a high school in rural Indiana that cancels its prom because a teen girl, Emma (Jo Ellen Pellman), wants to attend with her girlfriend, Alyssa (Ariana DeBose). Nicole Kidman (Babygirl), Keegan-Michael Key (Keanu), Andrew Rannells (Girls), Kerry Washington (Scandal), and others co-star.
This animated musical comedy co-stars Jesse Eisenberg (30 Minutes or Less) and Hathaway as the voices of Blu and Jewel, a pair of endangered Spix’s macaws who are thought to be the last of their species. Blu was raised in captivity and never learned to fly, and Jewel is a free spirit who dreams of returning to the wild. When they’re bird-napped by smugglers, they have to work together to find their way home — wherever that may be. The voice cast includes Jamie Foxx (Back in Action), Will i am (Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa), George Lopez (Lopez vs. Lopez), Tracy Morgan (Tracy Morgan: Staying Alive), Rodrigo Santoro (7 Prisoners), Leslie Mann (The Bubble), and Wanda Sykes (The Upshaws).
The movie’s sequel, Rio 2, is also available to watch on Netflix.
