Aussie star lands big role in The Devil Wears Prada 2: report

The popular Aussie actor has reportedly been cast as Anne Hathaway’s love interest in the long-awaited sequel.

A popular Aussie star has reportedly joined the sequel to The Devil Wears Prada in a very significant role.

Patrick Brammall, 49, best known as Gordon in Colin From Accounts, is set to play the love interest for Anne Hathaway’s Andy Sachs.

Entertainment Weekly broke the news earlier this week after previously reporting that Andy’s boyfriend from the 2006 original, Nate (Adrien Grenier), would not be in the long-awaited sequel.

Brammall is yet to confirm the news.

In the almost 20 years since The Devil Wears Prada was released, Nate has become an increasingly controversial character, with many agreeing his attitude toward Andy’s career made him the real villain of the story.

Hathaway is reprising her role as Andy in the sequel.

Brammall will reportedly play the leading man.

Grenier has since addressed the backlash himself, telling EW he understood the negativity toward Nate.

“When that whole thing [about Nate being the ‘real villain’ of the film] first came out, I couldn’t get my head around it. I didn’t understand it. Perhaps it was because I wasn’t mature as a man, just as Nate probably could’ve used a little growing up,” he said in June 2021.

Nate, played by Adrien Grenier, was Andy's love interest in the original film.

“I was just as immature as him at the time, so I couldn’t see his shortcomings, but, after taking time to reflect and much deliberation online, I can realise the truth in that perspective. Nate hadn’t grown up, but Andy had … she needed more out of life, and she was achieving it.

“He couldn’t support her like she needed because he was a fragile, wounded boy,” Grenier said of his controversial character. “On behalf of all the Nates out there: Come on! Step it up.”

Streep and Blunt are also returning for the sequel.

In The Devil Wears Prada, Andy and Nate break up after repeatedly clashing over priorities as her career skyrockets, but later reconnect – seemingly as friends – when they meet up after she finally quits her job.

Joining the cast along with Brammall is My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Rachel Bloom, Lucy Liu, Justin Theroux and B.J. Novak, although details of their roles have been kept quiet.

Meanwhile, original stars Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci were previously confirmed to reprise their roles.

According to Variety, the sequel “follows Priestly as she navigates her career amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing and as she faces off against Blunt’s character, now a high-powered executive for a luxury group with advertising dollars that Priestly desperately needs.”

The Devil Wears Prada 2 will hit theatres in May 2026.