Sydney Sweeney filmed a cameo for The Devil Wears Prada 2 — and it did not survive the final cut. The scene, in which Sweeney would have played herself as a celebrity client of Emily Blunt’s character, was removed because the filmmakers felt it sat oddly with the rest of the story, according to reports published on 4 November 2026.
The scene that was planned
The planned sequence would have shown Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs, Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly and Stanley Tucci’s Nigel Kipling visiting Emily Blunt’s Emily Charlton at Dior’s US headquarters in New York City, according to Apex News. Sweeney would have appeared as herself, a celebrity client of Charlton, in a brief three-minute moment. The film’s writer, Aline Brosh McKenna, confirmed in an interview that Sweeney does not appear in the final cut.
Why it was removed
According to the report, the team believed the scene felt out of place with the overall narrative they were crafting. During a November interview, Sweeney herself downplayed the rumours, saying, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” The Devil Wears Prada 2 features the return of the original cast — Streep, Hathaway, Tucci and Blunt — alongside new additions including Lucy Liu and Justin Theroux.
What audiences will see instead
With the film now released, audiences can judge the final cut without Sweeney’s cameo — and the story of what was left out has become a talking point of its own. Cut cameos are common in big franchise films, but a three-minute scene featuring one of Hollywood’s most-searched young stars was always going to attract attention once the writer confirmed it.
