It might be hard to imagine one of the most famous supermodels in the world feeling intimidated, butGisele Bündchenhas been there.
While Bündchen originally told McKenna, 54, that she was “not interested” in the fashion-focused dramedy — " ‘I’m not gonna play a model, I do that every day; that’s already a role I play’ " — a part was written for her anyway.
“I am not an actress, I’ve never had an acting class,” the model recalled. “It wasMeryl Streep, [whom] I think is the best actress of all time. It wasEmily BluntandAnne Hathaway, all of them, incredible.”
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Gisele Bündchen and Emily Blunt inThe Devil Wears Prada(2006).Everett Collection
“And that’s the scene I was doing, with those three ladies and me. So I was like, ‘Okay, I hope I don’t screw this up,’ " she said.
Bündchen also said that her 9-year-old daughterViviansaw the film, which also starsStanley TucciandAdrian Grenier, at a friend’s house.
“She’s like, ‘Mom, I saw you in a movie, you were wearing glasses. Was that you?’ I said, ‘That was me.’ So it was cute to have my daughter recognizing me for the two seconds I was onscreen,” the model said.
“I knew that whatevershe was doing to create that fear, I appreciated [because] I also knew she was watching out for me. There’s this scene where [she says], ‘You’re just as disappointing as the rest of those silly girls,’ " theOscarwinner recalled. “I remember when the camera turned on me, the pressure really got to me, and I’d had such emotional fluidity in the day up to that point but it just wasn’t there anymore.”
“I remember having the experience of watching [her] watch me, and [she] altered [her] performance ever so slightly, and just made it a little bit different, and brought more out of me and got me to break through whatever barrier I had,” Hathaway added.
source: people.com
