Three former assistants to Anna Wintour have lifted the lid on what life in the Vogue editor’s office was really like, and some of it is straight out of the film, while other details are rather more dull.

Sache Taylor, Sammi Tapper and Marley Marius, who each worked in Wintour’s office for between one and four years spanning 2017 to October 2025, sat down with Vogue‘s new head of editorial content Chloe Malle for the brand’s The Run-Through With Vogue podcast. 

The timing is no coincidence, The Devil Wears Prada 2 is on its way, and Wintour has already posed for the cover of her own magazine alongside Meryl Streep.

The interview process alone sets the tone. 

Candidates are advised not to wear black, Wintour famously loves colour and has said it’s the one thing she would never wear head-to-toe. 

And don’t expect to be quizzed about your strengths and weaknesses. “She doesn’t want a robot,” Marius said, recalling the advice she was given beforehand. “She wants someone with a personality.”

Once hired, the learning curve is steep. 

Marius described inheriting a 21-page handbook passed down from assistant to assistant, a sacred text covering everything about how the office runs. 

The day begins early. Wintour herself wakes between 4 and 5:30am on workdays, plays tennis, reads the news and arrives at the office around 8am, where an assistant has already set up her coffee, breakfast and schedule. 

All her emails and documents, including every response, are printed out for her to review. Her daily task list sits on an iPad.

On the subject of footwear, very much a theme in the film, the reality is more practical than glamorous. 

Marius lasted just two weeks in heels before switching to flats. 

“Things are happening at a certain pace and it sometimes involves a bit of running,” she explained. “When she asks for someone, she wants that person very quickly.” 

Tapper spent weeks in pumps that gave her blisters before quietly retiring them, though she still wore heels most days. The unspoken rule, she said, was simple: no jeans, no sneakers.

Taylor, who spent four years as an assistant and now plans the Met Gala as Vogue‘s special events director, recalled having to herd slow-moving editors into meetings with Wintour, using a two-assistant system, one on the landline, one physically hovering at the editor’s desk. 

“I would just hover until they were ready, if I hover, usually they were faster,” she said. 

She also found an unexpected fitness benefit. “I loved the running around because I was so busy that I could never exercise. So I would just run in the office.”

Then there is the take-home bag, an extra-large L.L.Bean Boat and Tote filled each evening with articles awaiting Wintour’s edits, notes and feedback. 

“She never wants anyone waiting on her for feedback,” Tapper explained. The infamous “book”, the print dummy of the magazine featured heavily in the film, goes in that bag every night, returned the next morning covered in Post-It notes written in what Taylor described as “doctors handwriting” that “takes a village” to decode. 

“I would allow myself to ask her once a week [what one of her notes said],” she recalled.

Frankie Muniz has shared the memory of meeting his Malcolm in the Middle onscreen father Bryan Cranston for the first time, and it involved a skin-coloured Speedo.

Speaking to PEOPLE ahead of the show’s revival, Muniz, 40, recalled that Cranston was the last cast member to be confirmed, with his role as dad Hal only finalised on the morning of their first shoot together. 

“The first scene we filmed is from the pilot where Jane [Kaczmarek], or Lois, is shaving Hal’s back,” Muniz said. 

“And he came in, like, a skin-colored Speedo and was like, ‘Hey, boys, I’m going to be your dad.'” He paused before adding: “Obviously pretty awkward.”

Muniz was just 13 at the time, already buzzing from the thrill of landing the lead role. 

Meeting the rest of the cast had been exciting enough, but Cranston’s entrance was something else entirely. What nobody could have predicted at that point was how central the character of Hal would become to the show. 

“Hal originally was supposed to be such a small character… kind of like an afterthought,” Muniz said. “But Bryan is such an incredible actor and made the show, I think.”

Behind the scenes, the cast quickly settled into something that felt genuinely like a family, pranks included. 

They pinned clothespins to each other’s backs, played the circle game with enough force to leave bruises, and fought over a foosball table until the production team replaced it with a ping-pong table. 

“That was a bad idea, you couldn’t get us off it to actually film,” Muniz recalled. “We probably could have gone pro.”

Saying goodbye to it all seven years and 151 episodes later hit harder than Muniz had anticipated. 

The cast was given about a month’s notice that the show was ending, which he said helped. But nothing fully prepared him for the final day. 

“It didn’t have any effect on me like I thought it would until literally the last shot of the last day,” he said. As cameras rolled on the last scene, two or three hundred crew members who had worked on the show over the years had gathered on set. 

“I remember starting [to cry] when they started rolling, and it wasn’t for the scene, but it worked really well for the moment. It was really hard to say goodbye.”

The wrap party brought its own quiet emotions. Muniz and Jane Kaczmarek were the last two people to leave the soundstage that night.

“It hit you in that moment of, like, wait, everything I’ve known for most of my life… is ending,” he said.

Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair is now streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.

Zendaya, Jacob Elordi, and Sydney Sweeney have all went on to become a generation-defining group of actors after their work on Euphoria.

Although all three of them were skilled actors before the show aired in 2019, it launched them onto a grander horizon, and especially Elordi, who played Nate Jacobs in the show.

In a 2023 interview, Elordi told Variety, “Euphoria changed my life.”

Following his performance in the show, the actor starred in Saltburn, Wuthering Heights, Frankenstein, and is currently rumoured to play the next James Bond.

Although Zendaya and Sweeney were also affected by Euphoria’s success, Elordi previously shared in an interview that Euphoria came to him at a time he had to decide to move back home for a while as he wasn’t booking any jobs.

“I think I had – I don’t know, $400 or $800 left in my bank account – and Euphoria was my last audition before I went home for a little while to make some money and recuperate,” the Priscilla star noted.

As for Zendaya, she had been a child star on Disney Channel and had already starred in Hollywood blockbusters Spider Man, and The Greatest Showman.

Regardless, her character in show, Rue, earned her two Emmy Awards.

Sweeney similarly was a star before as she had already appeared in the miniseries Sharp Objects, and The Handmaid’s Tale movie, but she became a much more familiar face after Euphoria.

She went on to appear in a string of strong movies, and dabbled in a few controversies, but overall became a much more familiar face after Euphoria. 

The show, which launched Elordi into his stardom, will come to its end this season premiering on April 12.