Kate Hudson Regrets Not Making Time To Star In ‘The Devil Wears Prada’: “That Was A Bad Call”

Kate Hudson is opening up about turning down The Devil Wears Prada, which starred Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Meryl Streep.

In a new interview, Hudson regrets not making her schedule work to star in the film adaptation of the Lauren Weisberger novel of the same name.

“That was a bad call. And it was like a timing thing,” Hudson said during an interview on Capital FM. “It was one of those things where I couldn’t do it, and I should’ve made it happen, and I didn’t.”

“That was one where when I saw it I was like, ugh,” she continued. “But again, everything happens for a reason. There’s a reason for that. That was a real like, ‘I should’ve made that work.'”

The Devil Wears Prada, directed by David Frankel from a screenplay by Aline Brosh McKenna, was released in 2006. By then, Hudson had starred in 2003’s How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Around the same time, Hudson appeared in titles like The Skeleton Key (2005), Youn, Me and Dupree (2006), Fool’s Gold (2008), and My Best Friend’s Girl (2008).

In 2009, Hudson co-starred with Hathaway in Bride Wars (2009).

“It’s funny, it’s waves of things that are happening and people shooting at different times,” Hudson said. “It’s not like you don’t do them because you don’t want to do them. It’s like, oh, you’re doing something else. And it just sucked, you know?”

The Devil Wears Prada went on to gross over $326M worldwide. A sequel is in early development at Disney, with McKenna said to be on board to pen the script.

In 2022, Hathaway doubted a sequel to The Devil Wears Prada could be possible.

“I don’t know if there can be [a sequel],” she said on The View. “I just think that movie was in a different era. Now everything’s gone so digital and that movie is centered around the concept of producing a physical thing and it’s just, it’s just very different.”