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Sydney Sweeney’s cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2 was cut, a decision attributed to creative reasons.
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The scene featuring Sweeney being dressed by Emily Blunt’s character didn’t fit structurally with the rest of the sequence.
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The Prada sequel boasts a star-studded cast, including Lady Gaga, with a confirmed cameo and a soundtrack featuring new music.
It turns out Sydney Sweeney won’t be strutting alongside Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway after all.
Entertainment Weekly reported Tuesday that Sweeney’s cameo in The Devil Wears Prada 2 was cut from the final film, ending months of speculation that kicked off last summer when a hooded figure carrying an umbrella — widely believed to be the Euphoria star — was photographed on the New York City set.
According to a source close to the production, Sweeney filmed a roughly three-minute scene near the top of the movie in which she appeared as herself, being dressed for an event by Emily Blunt’s character, Emily Charlton, now the head of Dior’s U.S. operations.
The scene was meant to expand Emily’s reintroduction before Andy (Hathaway), Miranda (Streep), and Nigel (Tucci) show up at her office hat-in-hand. The source told EW the cut was a “creative decision” — the scene reportedly didn’t fit structurally with the rest of the sequence.
The confirmation follows a cagey exchange earlier this week between screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna and ScreenRant, in which McKenna said plainly, “She’s not in the movie,” while dodging a follow-up about whether Sweeney had filmed scenes that were later removed.
Cameo cuts aren’t exactly rare — Simone Ashley (who is in Prada 2) was famously edited out of F1 last year — but Sweeney’s absence lands at a particularly loud moment in her career. The actress spent much of late 2025 at the center of a political storm following her American Eagle campaign, and she’s currently back on screens as Cassie Howard in Euphoria‘s long-awaited third season on HBO.
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The Prada sequel, meanwhile, is stacked. Lady Gaga makes a confirmed cameo (and recorded a Doechii-assisted track, “Runway,” for the soundtrack), while Justin Theroux, Kenneth Branagh, Lucy Liu, Pauline Chalamet, B.J. Novak, and Donatella Versace join the returning original cast. The film premiered at Lincoln Center on April 20 and hits theaters May 1.
