{"id":26671,"date":"2021-06-15T13:15:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T03:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=195354"},"modified":"2021-06-15T08:17:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T08:17:50","slug":"the-devil-wears-prada-villain-nate","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/the-devil-wears-prada-villain-nate\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Nate The Real Villain Of \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada\u201d? Anne Hathaway Explains"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I will unashamedly admit that I can recite the entire script of The Devil Wears Prada<\/a>. <\/em>I was obsessed with the glamorous world of fashion magazines as a budding pre-teen and even now I revisit the film on a quiet Friday night in. The cast reunited this week thanks to\u00a0Entertainment Weekly<\/em><\/a> for its 15th anniversary to reflect on the fashion-fuelled chick flick.<\/p>\n

For a number of years, the internet has believed<\/a> boyfriend Nate (played by Adrian Grenier) was the real villain to the story line. Not Meryl Streep’s character and editor-in-chief of\u00a0Runway,<\/em> Miranda Priestly. According to Grenier, his opinion was swayed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen that whole thing [about Nate being the \u2018real villain\u2019 of the film] first came out, I couldn’t get my head around it. I didn’t understand it,” he told the publication. “Perhaps it was because I wasn’t mature as a man, just as Nate probably could’ve used a little growing up. I was just as immature as him at the time, so I couldn’t see his shortcomings, but, after taking time to reflect and much deliberation online, I can realize the truth in that perspective. Nate hadn’t grown up, but Andy had…. she needed more out of life, and she was achieving it. He couldn’t support her like she needed because he was a fragile, wounded boy\u2026. on behalf of all the Nates out there: Come on! Step it up!\u201d<\/p>\n