Meryl – who is starring as The Witch in the fairytale story alongside Emily, who plays the Baker’s Wife – will be expected to pay her co-star back for the rescue mission. Emily joked on the Late Show With David Letterman: ”She owes me! She should play my lowly dressmaker. She owes me big time. She was tormenting me in [The Devil Wears Prada], and now she’s tormenting me in this movie. She’s this witch that has cast this horrible spell on our house. I just said, ‘This is it.’ We couldn’t have any other dynamic now: ‘You just have to hate me in films.'”
Emily has an idea of how Meryl can repay her: “She owes me, that’s why I think at some point I should play the Queen of Versailles and she can be my lowly dressmaker… I think it’s a great idea and I mentioned it to her, and her response was, ‘Dream on.’ That’s Meryl Streep… She’s so amazing, it’s annoying at this point. It’s annoying.”