Eagle-Eyed Fans Catch Hilarious Editing Gaffe in Devil Wears Prada 2 Trailer

Only this franchise could drop a glossy final trailer and immediately get upstaged by a two-second background oops. Welcome to Devil Wears Prada 2 discourse.

The blink-and-you-miss-it goof everyone saw anyway

In the final trailer that landed Monday, April 6, there is a quick New York street shot where Anne Hathaway ’s Andy Sachs is doing the confident power-walk thing. Over her shoulder, an onlooker is literally leaning out of a taxi window with a phone held high, clearly recording Andy like she’s a celebrity sighting. In-universe, Andy is a magazine editor going about her day, not a pop star dodging paparazzi, so yeah — it reads weird.

Someone clipped the moment and posted it to X, where it took off fast, pulling in more than 200,000 views. The post pretty much said what everyone was thinking:

'This girl having her phone just wide out the window in the trailer is frying me'

Replies ran the gamut from playful nitpicks to deep-cut fandom jokes — including nods to that famous line about a million girls killing for Andy’s job — and a bunch of people admitting they never catch these continuity hiccups until the internet points them out. Is it a true mistake? Unless the sequel has suddenly turned Andy into a tabloid magnet, it sure looks like an extra got caught doing what real New Yorkers do when a movie shoot rolls by.

So who is actually back — and who isn’t

• Back on the job: Anne Hathaway, 43, returns as Andy; Meryl Streep slips back into icy legend mode as editor Miranda Priestly; Emily Blunt is once again the razor-sharp Emily (yes, she has the trademark red hair on set); and Stanley Tucci returns as art director Nigel.
• Not returning: Adrian Grenier, 49, who played Andy’s aspiring-chef boyfriend Nate in the 2006 original, says he never got the call. He told Us Weekly on March 13 that while he was disappointed, he’s genuinely happy for Hathaway and the team and hopes he at least gets a premiere invite. He also laughed off the fan narrative that Nate was the bad guy the whole time.
• The wink after the snub: On Tuesday, April 7, Grenier leaned into the joke in a Starbucks ad, joking that he wasn’t asked to be in a certain sequel, then raising a cup in a playful toast to Nate.

The promo push (and what the trailers are teasing)

Hathaway and Streep were already out stoking anticipation on March 30 at a Mexico City event for the movie at Casa Azul. Marketing-wise, we’ve seen a recent teaser that brings Andy and Emily face-to-face again, and now this final trailer — inadvertent taxi-cam cameo and all.

Bottom line: the movie looks slick, the core cast is intact, and a background extra briefly tried to make Andy a viral star. Honestly, fitting for a fashion saga where the tiniest details always steal the spotlight.