‘A million girls would kill for this job’ with Meryl

For most flight attendants, the wildest in-flight moment is probably a passenger demanding impossible things at 35,000 feet. For Tanya Hutchison, it was accidentally landing a scene in The Devil Wears Prada 2. The Los Angeles-based flight attendant thought she was auditioning for a regular airline safety video. Instead, she found herself sharing screen space with Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Stanley Tucci. Which is quite the upgrade from demonstrating how seatbelts work.

From safety demo to Hollywood set“I submitted a tape, and then when I got the callback on my birthday from United, they were like, ‘Congratulations!’” Hutchison told PEOPLE. “I’m thinking I got the part in the safety video… And they said, ‘You’re going to be in a movie.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, what?!...I had no idea what I was getting myself into,” she added. Hutchison appears in a brief airplane scene where she informs Streep’s character Miranda Priestly that champagne is not served in economy. And according to Hutchison, passengers make demands like that “all the time.” “I want to go, ‘This is an airplane, not a restaurant,’” she told PEOPLE.

Keeping the secret at cruising altitude

The hardest part wasn’t acting. It was staying quiet. “There’s an NDA, so you can’t disclose anything. That was kind of hard, because you want to automatically start calling and telling everybody,” Hutchison told PEOPLE. And while the stars may look untouchable onscreen, Hutchison said being around them felt surprisingly normal. “You just see that they’re regular people like you are, and very nice and want you to feel comfortable,” she said.

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