Anne Hathaway insisted that models depicted in ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ weren’t ‘skeletal’

Anne Hathaway had a subtle hand in the casting of “The Devil Wears Prada 2.”

Co-star Meryl Streep — who will reprise her role as Miranda Priestly in the sequel — told Harper’s Bazaar that, while filming a Dolce & Gabanna fashion show during Milan Fashion week, they were “struck by how not only beautiful and young … but alarmingly thin the models were …”

Streep explained, “I thought that all had been addressed years ago. Annie clocked it too and she made a beeline to the producers about it, securing promises that the models in the show that we were putting together for our film would not be so skeletal!”

“She’s a stand-up girl,” Streep added.

There’s a lot of pressure on the film, which will be released on May 1, 20 years after the original.

Hathaway noted that the main difference between the sequel and the original release is that the former was made “in view.”’

“The first movie was such an unknown quantity,” the publication notes, “that fashion brands were initially hesitant to get on board and lend clothes.”

Now, not only are designers now clambering to be featured in the next chapter of the story — with the characters decked out in head-to-toe designer and jewels — but the cast and crew were hounded by fans in the streets of NYC.

Recalling the “avid attention that engulfed” the production, Streep shares, “Annie kept her cool, but I was unnerved.”

However, there was one moment where Hathaway got flustered: when she took a tumble on set.

“I was aware that I was falling, I was aware that I was being photographed, and I was also aware that, like, so many people on the crew, their hearts had just jumped up into their throat, so I needed to get up quickly to make sure they knew I was okay,” said. But the star later told director David Frankel, “Oh no. I’m news.”