The Devil Wears Prada 2 comes out on May 1, and their big New York City premiere was held on Monday night. Members of the OG cast were there along with new cast members like Justin Theroux, Lucy Liu, Rachel Bloom, B.J. Novak, Simone Ashley, and Kenneth Branagh. Lady Gaga, who has a cameo in the movie, was also there. The film also features cameos from Donatella Versace, Naomi Campbell, and Heidi Klum.
After Sydney Sweeney was spotted on set last August, it was speculated that she’d have a “secret role” in the movie. It was never clear whether it was a cameo or bigger part and she was just one of many celebrities spotted on set. Sydney doesn’t appear in DWP2’s final cut. Her on-set appearance probably would have been shrugged off or forgotten about, but on Tuesday, Entertainment Weekly published an exclusive about Sydney’s absence. According to a source, she filmed a scene early in the movie, but it was cut. Here’s some more information about that:
Euphoria actress Sydney Sweeney’s cameo has been cut from The Devil Wears Prada 2’s cinematic catwalk, Entertainment Weekly has exclusively learned.
After the actress was photographed in mid-2025 while heading to the set of the highly anticipated sequel starring Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci, and Emily Blunt, speculation began that the star would make an appearance in the project.
Now, EW can reveal that the actress filmed a scene that would’ve appeared near the beginning of the film, though a source explains that it was a “creative decision” to nix the bit altogether.
Trailers for the film tease a plot point in which now-established journalist Andy Sachs (Hathaway) reunites with her form of er Runway colleagues, Miranda Priestly (Streep) and Nigel Kipling (Tucci), to save the fashion magazine from imploding amid a scandal and a volatile media landscape. While seeking funds to keep the brand running, they enlist the help of former Runway assistant Emily Charlton (Blunt), who now works as the head of Dior’s United States operation.
As it appears in the film, the trio arrives at the Dior offices to seek Emily’s help. Initially, however, Sweeney appeared in a scene that expanded upon Emily’s introduction, and saw her at work dressing a celebrity client, with Sweeney playing herself in the reported three-minute scene.
EW has learned that the scene did not work structurally with the rest of the sequence, and that the team working on the movie was grateful for her participation, making the decision to remove the bit a difficult one.
Representatives for Disney and Sweeney did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.
While Sweeney doesn’t appear in the final cut of the film, she recently returned to the project that launched her to superstardom, as she appeared in the first two episodes of Euphoria’s third season, which debuted earlier in April on HBO.
Of the cameos that do occur in Devil Wears Prada 2, EW previously learned that Lady Gaga makes an appearance in the film, while the pop star also recorded a Doechii-assisted soundtrack song, “Runway,” for the movie’s soundtrack.
To add a little bit more context, Screenrant published an interview with DWP2 screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna over the weekend. When asked about the pictures of Sydney on set, McKenna denied that she was in the film but refused to elaborate. Follow-up questions pressed her about whether a role had been written for Sydney, and she said, ”Well, you saw the movie. She’s not in the movie.”
To me, the exchange reads as tense. It would have been pretty easy to just say, “Hey, we wanted her, but it didn’t work out.” That’s what happened when director David Frankel was asked about Anna Wintour’s cut cameo. He told a podcast that she got ahead of her take which caused the shot to get out of focus, and he couldn’t ask her to do a second take.
That said, I don’t think Sydney’s cameo was cut because of her recent controversies. It was filmed after that went down. I also don’t think her appearance was a box office make-or-break. I doubt there is anyone who was persuaded to see DWP2 just because of a three-minute Sydney Sweeney cameo. I wonder if “sources” would have spoken to EW if McKenna hadn’t had that weird exchange with Screenrant. I suspect this leak came from her people because the marketing for DWP2 is insane. I flew through JFK airport over the weekend and in Terminal 8, the walkway from TSA to the gates has been converted into a red carpet with promo video airing along both walls. DWP2 is a highly-anticipated sequel to a beloved movie starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway. It didn’t need this type of publicity. Its target audience (Millennials) doesn’t care if Syd is in it or not. We want Anne, Meryl, Stanley, Emily and Gaga.
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- HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA – APRIL 07: American actress Sydney Sweeney wearing Pierre Cardin circa 2007, styled by Molly Dickson arrives at the Los Angeles Premiere Of HBO’s ‘Euphoria’ Season 3 held at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX at Ovation Hollywood on April 7, 2026 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States.,Image: 1089417041, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Sydney Sweeney, Credit line: Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/Avalon
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- HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA – APRIL 07: American actress Sydney Sweeney wearing Pierre Cardin circa 2007, styled by Molly Dickson arrives at the Los Angeles Premiere Of HBO’s ‘Euphoria’ Season 3 held at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX at Ovation Hollywood on April 7, 2026 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States.,Image: 1089418367, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Sydney Sweeney, Credit line: Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/Avalon
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I’m seeing it next wednesday the cinema I usually go to has made it a ladies night with goodie bag etc. I usually skip these but the Barbie one was a lot of fun & most of us wore pink.
Btw I’m glad her cameo got cut. Don’t like her MAGA vibes & did she also complain about only being seeing sexually only for her to constantly focus on her breasts?
This feels like my PR wants to make this a thing for attention more than it being an actual thing. Cameos get cut all the time in movies for pacing, the storyline that they reference gets cut, or like what happened with Anna Wintour the shot isn’t usable.
What’s interesting to me, and I said this last summer when she was doing all of her PR stuff is there is this weird idea that any attention is good attention, but for her the only thing that seems to be amplified is the negative stuff. I don’t watch Euphoria so I don’t know how this season is going, but I imagine it hasn’t been fantastic because I haven’t seen anything really about it. So maybe this is just her way of linking herself to a major movie even if her cameo in it was cut.
To be honest, does anyone really see her as a fashionista? Who images her in a fashion brand such as Dior? When I think of fashionable celebrities, I think of Zendaya, Anya Taylor Joy and Kerry Washington off the top of my head. Sydney gives Mara-la-go, oversexualized, pick-me vibes. As for Euphoria, her character plot line appears to be leaning heavily into the dumb Republican woman leaning into her sexuality to get what she wants persona. Yike. Just from the two episodes that I have watched, it’s like the writers and producers are making fun of her to her face. It’s so cringe.
She’s a denim Daisy Dukes and gingham shirt knotted at the waist kind of chick. And cowboy boots.
Yeah, I don’t think that Sweeney was cut due to any particular opinions she has, I think that this one was just business. I guess I’m curious as to what it would’ve been, she’s never been a fashionista.
Every couple of years Hollywood feels they need to roll out some white blonde and over expose her eg Margot Robbie,Jennifer Lawrence. I want to say also Kirsten Dunst and Reese but they were child stars. The biggest differe here is Sydney is not that talented.
In my personal headcanon, Meryl went to someone and said “You know what? I don’t really feel like sharing screen time, movie credit, or a red carpet with a snippy 15-minutes starlet whose main claim to fame is dogwhistling white supremacy. Do with that what you will, folks.”
And then, thank you, Ms. Sweeney — next?
Truly. But it begs the question of why she was ever filmed for the movie in the first place.
Side note: the more I see of these bigots, the more I get why hate does actually age people. The clenched jaw/frown/dead eyed rage face actually does something physiologically and I can see it in Sydney’s face these days. I guess it’s the wrinkles settling into a downturned grimace instead of smile lines, plus all the extra cortisol?
It depends on when the movie started filming. It may have been before she showed her a$$.
I’m still traumatized by her “adult baby” plot line on Euphoria and I’d like to see her in nothing else ever. 😳
I’m happy she’s not in it. I don’t need to see her butterface in this. It would irk me.
Three minutes to establish Emily Blunt is working at Dior? That’s an eternity film wise, especially early in the movie. Maybe it will be an extra on the DVD.
Right? they can do that with a simple line like “lets go see Emily she’s the head of US Dior now.” and bam done lol.
(does the head of Dior in the US dress celebrities, minus something like a big Oscar attendee or the Met Gala?)
Am I alone in thinking this woman is not even remotely pretty?
No. Which is why I call her “butterface”. I don’t think she’s pretty at all – and if she wasn’t white, blonde, and had big (fake) boobs no one else would either.
Plus one to LP and Ameerah’s take. I can’t figure out what people see in her and after that American Eagle ad I don’t want to see her in A. Single. Thing. I would not be surprised if they cut her scene after that ad and the bad decisions around her.
I guess she is the current standard of beauty for adolescent males?
She has the deadest of the dead eyes. She doesn’t look like she’s ever having fun. She doesn’t look like she’s fun.
I’m going to see it on 4/30. A local Cinemark theater is having a special showing that evening where you get an issue of Runway, a special cup, popcorn, a drink and a charm bag! I’m so excited. I saw the first movie for the first time (of many) on a flight from Chicago to Dublin in 2006!
SS was totally cut for her maga ties. I’m sure nobody wanted the cameo, and I bet Dior didnt want to dress her, even on film.
Even if it was shot during all the controversy, this shizz hit the fan hard after. And her role in Euphoria, which basically lampoons the trad maga housewife, doesnt help either.
Andy Cohen mentioned the other day on his SiriusXM show that he had been asked to film in a cameo scene. He would be on vacation with his children in that time period. So he said something like: If I do it, will you guarantee it’s not going to be cut? He didn’t want to take time away from his children while on vacation if it was going to end up on the cutting room floor. They told him they could not guarantee it wouldn’t be cut. So he passed on it. He mentioned other celebrities were going to be doing cameos also, and he felt he would probably be cut.
From the clips I’ve seen the sequel looks terrible. Nowhere near as funny as the first one and all those useless cameos, ugh.
Sweeney has the worst case of resting bitch face I’ve ever seen.