Adrien Grenier believes “backlash” to his character within the 2006 movie “The Satan Wears Prada” is why he’s not concerned within the sequel, which is due out this summer time.
“We’re all followers of the film, whether or not or not we’re in it. Clearly, it was a disappointment that I didn’t get the decision to be within the sequel, however I additionally perceive there’s some backlash with Nate, the character, so that may have one thing to do with it,” he advised Web page Six in an interview out of SXSW printed Saturday. “However I believe that simply leaves room for a by-product.”
Grenier performed the chef boyfriend of Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) within the first film.
Although many followers have described his character as immature and egocentric, Grenier has repeatedly expressed his shock to the response through the years.
“I didn’t see among the subtleties and the nuance of this character and what it represented within the movie till the knowledge of the lots got here on-line and began to push in opposition to the character and throw him below the bus, and I acquired flak”,” he advised Leisure Weekly in 2021.
He continued, “All these memes that got here out had been stunning to me. It hadn’t occurred to me till I began to essentially give it some thought, and maybe it was as a result of I used to be as immature as Nate was on the time. And in some ways, he’s very egocentric and self-involved; it was all about him. He wasn’t extending himself to help Andy in her profession.”
Grenier added that he’s since come to see the reality within the assessement.
The film’s author Aline Brosh McKenna stood up for Grenier’s character in the identical interview. “What he’s essential of is that the values that she set out for herself, she is just not following by on, and there’s a hypocrisy there,” McKenna stated on the time.
