Anne Hathaway has refuted suggestions that she had size-zero models fired from the forthcoming sequel to The Devil Wears Prada in a drive for inclusivity. Speaking to Good Morning America, the actor sought to clarify comments made by her co-star, Meryl Streep, to Harper’s Bazaar in March.

Streep told the magazine she had been surprised how thin the models on set were, and that “Annie clocked it too, and she made a beeline to the producers about it, securing promises that the models in the show that we were putting together for our film would not be so skeletal! She’s a standup girl.”

Speaking to Variety at the film’s New York premiere last week, Hathaway appeared to double down on the claim, saying she “thought the scene would be so much more enjoyable for the audience if we had just a wider range of bodies on display.

“I just went to the producers and I asked that question: ‘Don’t you think the scene would be stronger if we had a more inclusive approach to sizing? They looked up and were so sad that they hadn’t thought about it. I think they were so locked in, just kind of going with the flow. But as soon as they saw it, they were the ones who made it happen in like an hour.”

Appearing on Good Morning America, Hathaway said, “There’s a little misinformation getting out there right now that people were fired because of the size inclusivity and that just didn’t happen”.

She added: “Nobody lost their jobs, in fact, it created more jobs.”

The Devil Wears Prada 2 is released in cinemas this weekend, 20 years after the original film, and looks set to ride a wave of renewed business at the box office, after healthy takings for films such as Project Hail Mary, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and the Michael Jackson biopic, Michael.