--- title: Meryl Streep Negotiated Salary for 'Devil Wears Prada' description: The actress revealed in an interview with Variety that she was initially lowballed on her offer to play Miranda Priestly in 'The Devil Wears Prada.' canonical: https://time.com/4381459/meryl-streep-devil-wears-prada-salary/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-24T14:45:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:48.504Z og:title: Not Even Meryl Streep is Safe From the Wage Gap og:description: Even Oscar winners have to negotiate og:url: https://time.com/4381459/meryl-streep-devil-wears-prada-salary/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a60a6b47b1361ec/698760f706f2c16e10331655/141016_em_bosses_priestly.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 141016_EM_Bosses_Priestly og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Not Even Meryl Streep is Safe From the Wage Gap twitter:description: Even Oscar winners have to negotiate twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a60a6b47b1361ec/698760f706f2c16e10331655/141016_em_bosses_priestly.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Not Even Meryl Streep is Safe From the Wage Gap by [Jessie Van Amburg](https://time.com/author/jessie-van-amburg/) ## Jessie Van Amburg Jun 24, 2016 2:45 PM UTC  THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA20th Century Fox courtesy of the Everett Collection by [Jessie Van Amburg](https://time.com/author/jessie-van-amburg/) ## Jessie Van Amburg Jun 24, 2016 2:45 PM UTC In an interview with [Variety](http://variety.com/2016/film/features/the-devil-wears-prada-turns-10-meryl-streep-anne-hathaway-and-emily-blunt-tell-all-1201802311/) in honor of the [10th anniversary of ](http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/06/meryl-streep-the-devil-wears-prada-influence)_The Devil Wears Prada,_ Meryl Streep said that she was disappointed by the initial salary offer she received. “The offer was to my mind slightly, if not insulting, not perhaps reflective of my actual value to the project,” she said. Streep, who said that she had avoided [salary negotiation](http://motto.time.com/4217575/negotiate-salary-accept-job/) throughout her career, had decided at 55 that enough was enough. “There was my ‘goodbye moment,’ and then they doubled the offer,” she said. “I had just learned, at a very late date, how to deal on my own behalf.” _Variety_ reports that having Meryl Streep on board with the film led to Fox greenlighting the concept, which was never expected to make much. It ended up grossing over $300 million worldwide. The film would end up being Streep’s first blockbuster, which led to others like _Mamma Mia!_ and solidified her role as a force at the box office. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4381459/meryl-streep-devil-wears-prada-salary/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4381459/meryl-streep-devil-wears-prada-salary/"},"headline":"Not Even Meryl Streep is Safe From the Wage Gap","datePublished":"2016-06-24T14:45:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:48.504Z","description":"Even Oscar winners have to negotiate","url":"https://time.com/4381459/meryl-streep-devil-wears-prada-salary/","keywords":["motto","celebrities","News"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a60a6b47b1361ec/698760f706f2c16e10331655/141016_em_bosses_priestly.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessie Van Amburg","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jessie-van-amburg/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a60a6b47b1361ec/698760f706f2c16e10331655/141016_em_bosses_priestly.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"141016_EM_Bosses_Priestly","caption":"THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, 2006.","creditText":"20th Century Fox courtesy of the Everett Collection","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4381459/meryl-streep-devil-wears-prada-salary/","name":"Not Even Meryl Streep is Safe From the Wage Gap"}}]}] ```