Anne Hathaway was spotted filming for the first time with new co-star Kenneth Branagh on The Devil Wears Prada 2 set in New York on Thursday. 

The actress, 42, who returns as Andy Sachs in the much-anticipated sequel, looked effortlessly stylish for the dramatic outdoor shoot. 

Anne wore a chic black top and high-waisted jeans which were layered with an oversized raincoat and accessorised with a leather handbag. 

Her character appeared to plead with Kenneth's character at the doorway of his swanky townhouse before he angrily turned her away. 

The BAFTA winner, 64, who has joined the cast the husband of Meryl Streep's vicious fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestley, wore a navy polo shirt with his hair neatly styled.

It came just hours after fellow co-star Emily Blunt debuted a new hairdo on set, totally unrecognisable from the film's 2002 original. 

The original novel was a roman à clef by the real Anna's former assistant Lauren Weisberger, with Emily playing magazine editor Miranda's chic, perpetually harried senior assistant Emily Charlton, who hisses that she is 'one stomach flu away from my goal weight.'

Viewers of the original movie will remember Emily's trademark copper red locks, which elegantly framed her perpetually severe expression.

For the sequel, however, Emily is swapping out her previous hair colour for a head-turning ash blonde do that she debuted on set.

She was previously spotted on the set of the new movie with the same hair color and same style she had sported in the 2006 original.

Evidently, however, her character will undergo a makeover during the course of the sequel, resulting in the new look she unveiled this week.

The scene she was filming involved a restaurant meeting with Anne, who could be glimpsed sitting with her at an elegant table near the window.

Emily's fashion-forward outfit included a trendily torn, scarlet and black striped top with 'NY' splashed across the front, perfectly fitted to her enviably lithe frame.

She pulled a high-waisted black skirt over a set of matching shorts, which were cut revealingly enough to show off her vertiginous legs.

The Oppenheimer actress accessorised with a chain mail tie, bringing the look together with towering platform heels and sunglasses.

Emily sharpened her unmistakable screen siren features with makeup, including a slick of blood-red lipstick that complemented her top.

When she was spotted emerging from her trailer at another point during the workday, the skirt-shorts combo was swapped out for crimson slacks.

A stylish jacket that matched the slacks was slung over one of Emily's shoulders, and she augmented the outfit with a handbag and a camel-toned baseball cap. 

During the sweltering New York August day, a member of the crew could be seen walking alongside Emily holding an umbrella over her to ward off the rays. 

When the first film came out, Emily's character was rumored to be inspired by former Vogue writer Victoria 'Plum' Sykes, who herself has strenuously denied as much. 

A number of boldface names from the first movie have returned for the sequel, including not only Meryl, Anne and Emily but also Stanley Tucci.

Stanley was a scene-stealing presence in the first film as Runway magazine's waspish art director Nigel Kipling, who announces Miranda's arrival at the office by warning his colleagues: 'All right, everyone, gird your loins!'      

David Frankel and Aline Brosh McKenna, the director and writer respectively of the original movie, have been enlisted for the same jobs on the sequel.

Although Lauren Weisberger wrote a sequel to her novel called Revenge Wears Prada, the reported plot of the second film is different from that of the second book. 

In the upcoming movie, Miranda is said to be attempting to steer Runway through a new media landscape as her old world of print magazines slides into increasing irrelevance in the digital age, according to Variety.

She is bent on making a deal with a luxury ad firm, only to hit a snag in the shape of Emily, who is now an executive at the company. 

When the book The Devil Wears Prada was published in 2003, it spent six months on the New York Times bestseller list and set off a blizzard of gossip that Lauren was writing about her former boss, who had employed her for less than a year.