--- 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3200 og:image:height: 1800 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Not Even Meryl Streep is Safe From the Wage Gap > Sponsored content. 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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. 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