Stanley Tucci is back as Nigel in The Devil Wears Prada 2, which premiered in New York on April 20, 2026 and is set to hit theaters nationwide on May 1, 2026. The sequel brings Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt back to the world that made the 2006 original a pop-culture fixture.
Tucci said playing Nigel alongside returning castmates was incredible, adding that no one thought the sequel would happen and that the film is making fashion history. That reunion is the point of the project: Miranda Priestly is nearing retirement, Andy Sachs is returning to fashion with her own agenda, and the story is picking up after a 20-year gap that made a follow-up seem unlikely for years.
New faces also join the film, including Justin Theroux and Kenneth Branagh, but the sequel’s pull is the return of the core quartet. The original Devil Wears Prada came out in 2006, and the new film leans hard on the passage of time, giving the cast’s return more weight than a simple nostalgia play.
The one thing the film does not do is pretend the old order still holds. Miranda is nearing retirement, Andy is back on her own terms, and Nigel is again in the middle of the fashion machine, which makes the sequel less of a rerun than a reset. For viewers looking up Stanley Tucci wife while the cast promotion rolls on, the real answer is that Tucci’s biggest on-screen return this year is the one audiences have waited 20 years to see.