Meryl Streep stopped method acting after 'Devil Wears Prada': 'I was so depressed'

Everybody feared Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada, even Meryl Streep.

Streep played Priestly, the icy and powerful editor-in-chief of fictional high-fashion magazine Runway with little time for anybody and anything else. The three-time Oscar-winning actress described the emotional toll the role took on her for Entertainment Weekly's oral history of the 2006 dramedy.

"It was horrible!" Streep admitted. "I was [miserable] in my trailer. I could hear them all rocking and laughing. I was so depressed! I said, 'Well, it's the price you pay for being boss!' That's the last time I ever attempted a Method thing!"

Anne Hathaway played Andy, who begins the movie desperate for her first journalism job out of college but loses herself when she shockingly lands a job as Priestly's assistant. According to director David Frankel, Hathaway employed similar method tactics:

"Annie was totally committed to the dark side, to the suffering. ... There's a lovely scene with Stanley [Tucci], where she's getting yelled at, she's ready to quit. ... We were setting up the shot, and I was like, 'Where's Annie?' She was hunkered down in a corner of the set, and she had Madame Butterfly, the opera, playing in her head, going to her sad place. She said, 'Just start rolling, and I'll walk in,' and she came in and was really teary."

Streep was nominated for best actress at the 79th Academy Awards, and Devil Wears Prada also received a nod for best achievement in costume design.

The Devil Wears Prada debuted in theaters June 30, 2006, and somehow, the cast reunited for the oral history to commemorate the 15th anniversary. Watch video component below.