Anne Hathaway turned a late-night interview into a quick inside joke on Wednesday, April 16, telling Stephen Colbert that Meryl Streep had “stole my sweater” after the host brought up Streep’s recent appearance promoting The Devil Wears Prada 2. Colbert repeated the line back to her — “Yes, she stole your sweater” — and Hathaway fired back, “That’s where it went!”
The exchange landed because it tied straight back to a bit fans had already noticed. On April 1, Streep appeared on the show in a blue sweater that looked nearly identical to the original cerulean sweater from The Devil Wears Prada, while Hathaway had been seen the day before on stylist Ashley Afriyie’s Instagram Stories wearing a white hoodie with a large blue Pantone square and the word “ceruleo” underneath. The sweater Streep wore was a custom-designed piece by Olympia Gayot for J.Crew in collaboration with Micaela Erlanger, and Gayot said, “Meryl makes everything iconic. We just made sure this cerulean lived up to it.”
Hathaway’s appearance came one day after the episode aired, and she was in a reflective mood about the sequel and the audience reaction around it. “It’s so much fun. It’s so great,” she said, adding that the project felt special while it was being made and that she had “kind of anticipated people were going to love the movie.” She called it “this 20-year relationship with the movie that I get to have from making it, but now I get to have with the world,” and said, “It’s why we came back after all these years. It’s because the audience wanted it.”
The sequel is scheduled to hit theaters on May 1, 2026, and it is drawing attention not just because Streep and Hathaway are returning, but because Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt are among the original stars set to come back as well. That return gives the joke extra weight: the movie that turned a sweater into a cultural reference is coming back with the same cast that made the line memorable in the first place.
What makes the moment work is that it is both a joke and a preview. Hathaway did not just swat away the sweater bit; she helped confirm that the sequel is leaning into the same memory that made the original stick. If the film is going to ride nostalgia, this is the kind of joke that tells audiences it already knows exactly what they are waiting for.