The Devil Wears Prada Sequel Faces Backlash

0:00It's April 27th. Welcome to Entertainment and celebrity news today, powered by AI and packed with headlines. The Devilwares Prada 2 is dropping soon, but a short clip from the movie has folks online ready to boycott. It features a new assistant character, a Chinese American played by Helen J. Shin meeting up with Anne Hathaway's Andy Sachs back at Runway Magazine. She's shown as super awkward, overly eager, dressed all wrong, and bragging about her Yale degree and perfect test scores right off the bat. The scenes gone viral with over 26 million views, and critics say it plays into old stereotypes of Asian women as nerdy, insecure. Overachievers. Her name, Jin Chao, is getting slammed too, with some calling it a slurr disguised as Chinese sounding. Social media is blowing up, from ex-posts ripping Hollywood for lazy rep in 2026, to reddit threads comparing it to outdated characters like... Cho Chang from Harry Potter.

1:00One viral Japanese tweet nailed it as blatant racism, racking up a million views and fuelling boycott hashtags. Meanwhile, the original flick from 2006 was a massive hit, pulling in 326 million worldwide and becoming a streaming. staple. Stars like Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci are back, but this drama might overshadow the premiere buzz. As the film hits China on April 30th, and everywhere else, May 1st, expect the backlash to keep rolling, proving Hollywood still got work to do, on fresh, real representation.