Sydney Sweeney's 'Devil Wears Prada 2' Cameo Cut, Rumored Reason Why Explained

Sydney Sweeney's scene in The Devil Wears Prada 2 has ended up on the cutting-room floor.

via: JJ & Variety

When “The Devil Wears Prada 2” hits theaters on May 1, audiences will notice a few famous faces — though there’s a couple of notable absences.

The sequel, which premiered Monday night in New York, is loaded with cameos from the fashion and entertainment worlds. Lady Gaga makes an appearance, and also recorded a Doechii-assisted track, “Runway,” for the film’s soundtrack. Donatella Versace, who stepped down as creative director of her family’s brand, filmed a scene in Milan for a cameo. Supermodel Naomi Campbell also appears, having been seated next to Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly at the Dolce & Gabbana spring 2026 show, which was shot live during Milan Fashion Week.

But not everyone who showed up on set made it onto the screen.

A source explained to EW that Sydney‘s cameo would have happened towards the top of the film, but was ultimately cut out in a “creative decision.”

The “Euphoria” star filmed a roughly three-minute scene near the top of the movie in which she played herself, being dressed for an event by Emily Blunt’s character, Emily Charlton — now running Dior’s U.S. operations. According to a source, the scene did not work structurally with the rest of the sequence, and the team found the decision to remove it a difficult one. Sweeney, for her part, has hardly been hurting for screen time lately: She recently returned to the project that launched her to superstardom, appearing in the long-awaited third season of “Euphoria” on HBO.

Also trimmed from the finished film is “How to Get Away With Murder” actor Conrad Ricamora, who had been cast as Andy’s roommate. Sources say the character didn’t survive test screenings (audiences kept questioning why Andy needed a roommate at all). The final film instead leans into her spending time at Tracie Thoms’ character’s place, a dynamic that sources say plays more realistic to the 2006 original.

Meanwhile, one cameo that never happened was Jessica Chastain’s. Rumors of the Oscar winner appearing in the film circulated online in July 2025 after the actress was seen in New York City during the time of principal photography. However, the gossip proved to be false because Chastain never even filmed a cameo.

When speaking with Variety’s Marc Malkin at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in March about a possible cameo, Anna Wintour played coy, telling him, “That’s for you to find out.”

Consider it found out. The Condé Nast global content chief visited the sequel’s Milan set, where director David Frankel captured her in what he called a “gag take” that will appear as a bonus feature on streaming — though Wintour got ahead of her cue, leaving the shot partially out of focus. “I can’t ask Anna to do take two,” Frankel told the “Back Row” podcast. Her contribution behind the camera proved more consequential anyway: While watching a scene roll in the fictional Dior offices, Wintour zeroed in on the flowers in frame, declared there were too many and they were too pink and informed the crew that Dior would only ever have white flowers. The blooms were promptly swapped out.

It is not uncommon for celebrity cameos to be cut from movies once the editing process begins.

Last year alone, we noted that Lola Tung and Nicholas Alexander Chavez were both cut from the I Know What You Did Last Summer movie, and Simone Ashley (who happens to be in The Devil Wears Prada 2) was cut from the F1 movie.