Anne Hathaway and Anna Wintour just made a surprise collaboration in " The Devil Wears Prada" .
The former "Devil Wears Prada" star and editor-in-chief of Vogue - who is said to have inspired Meryl Streep's role as Miranda Priestley in the film - Recently made a guest appearance on Gutenberg’s stage!
This Broadway play tells the story of two aspiring playwrights, Bud (Josh Gad) and Doug (Andrew Rannells), who are plotting a drama about Johannes Gutten Castle's new drama.
Each show ends with a different celebrity guest appearing to play theater producer, and on January 10 it was Hathaway and Wintour's turn.
"Oh, Bud! Doug!" Hathaway said during the pair's Broadway guest appearance. "This show is great. We don't need to hear any more!"
"I'm a very famous Broadway producer," Wintour interjected, before nodding to The Devil Wears Prada : "This is my assistant."
Wintour concluded, echoing Streep's Miranda Priestly: "I've got a Broadway contract in my hand... and that's it."
'The cooperation we all need'
Fans seemed excited about Hathaway and Wintour's exchange on stage, with one Instagram user calling it "the collaboration we all need."
"This is amazing on so many levels!" another fan commented, while one user wrote: "Anna's 'this is my assistant' line really blew my mind."
Hathaway starred in 2006's The Devil Wears Prada as Andrea Sachs, the daughter of fictional Runway magazine editor-in-chief Miranda Priestley (Streep). Second Assistant.
The film is adapted from Lauren Weisberg's 2003 novel of the same name, which was reportedly inspired by Weisberg's own experience working for Wintour.
Wintour had never publicly acknowledged the film before her recent Broadway cameo, but the famed Vogue editor reportedly did attend a private screening of the film when it first came out.
The Devil Wears Prada screenwriter Erin Brosh McKenna has previously shared the challenges of researching Wintour for the film.
"I had a hard time finding people in the fashion industry who would talk to me," McKenna recalled to Entertainment Weekly . "There was a guy I was talking to, and I will never reveal his name, who read the book and said, 'The people in this movie are so nice. No one in that world is too nice."
