‘The Devil Wears Prada’ sequel casts Anne Hathaway’s love interest replacing Adrian Grenier

Things aren’t moving at a glacial pace for The Devil Wears Prada sequel, as Entertainment Weekly has learned that the cast list is heating up with a new character replacing Adrian Grenier’s Nate as the love interest of Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs.

After EW exclusively reported that Grenier would not return for the upcoming sequel — which reunites OG stars Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, and more — news broke Monday that Colin From Accounts co-creator and star Patrick Brammall is also joining the cast. And a source tells EW that the actor, who also starred on Evil, will play the new object of Andy’s romantic affection.

While many fans deemed Nate the real villain of the 2006 movie because of his unsupportive approach to Andy’s journalism career, the source says audiences are intended to like Brammall’s character.

Also joining the cast is Crazy Ex-Girlfriend TV series alum Rachel Bloom, in an undisclosed role. She and Brammall are just the latest of recently announced cast additions, which include Lucy Liu, Justin Theroux, B.J. Novak, Simone Ashley, Pauline Chalamet, and more.

Bloom joins the film after previously working with returning Devil Wears Prada writer Aline Brosh McKenna, who also co-created Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

EW has reached out to representatives for Disney — parent company of Devil Wears Prada 2 distributor 20th Century Studios — for comment.

In addition to McKenna, Devil Wears Prada director David Frankel is also returning to helm the sequel. The first film earned a $327 million global box office haul and a pair of Oscar nominations.

Adapted from former Vogue assistant to Anna Wintour Lauren Weisberger’s book of the same name, the original movie followed Andy as an accomplished aspiring journalist, who begrudgingly takes a job as an assistant to a ruthless fashion editor, Miranda Priestly (Streep), at a prestigious fashion magazine.

Plot details for the sequel are still under wraps, though Frankel and McKenna told EW in a 2021 oral history celebrating the original film’s 15th birthday that a potential continuation wouldn’t be easy to make.

“Magazines and publishing have changed so much. This is a period of time where [Andy] took a physical book to someone’s house every day so she could leaf through it. Maybe they still do that, but I doubt it. It had its moment,” McKenna said at the time, while Frankel revealed that there were initial discussions about a sequel following the first movie’s success.

“[The studio] didn’t ask for [a sequel]. We had a meeting where we said, ‘What could we do if there was a sequel?'” he said. “Maybe it was stupid; we felt like, No, this story has been told.… Lauren eventually wrote another book following up 15 years later. We came to the same conclusion, that just following the characters wouldn’t be the same.”

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In response to a question about the internet’s feelings that Nate was the true villain of the film, Grenier told EW in the same oral history interview that, “All those memes that came out were shocking to me. It hadn’t occurred to me until I started to really think about it, and perhaps it was because I was as immature as Nate was at the time, and in many ways he’s very selfish and self-involved, it was all about him, he wasn’t extending himself to support Andy in her career.”

The Devil Wears Prada 2 releases in theaters on May 1, 2026.