The wife of “Devil Wears Prada 2” actor Patrick Brammall is speaking out amid a debate over the significance of her husband’s role in the smash film.

A newcomer to the “Devil Wears Prada” franchise, Brammall portrays Peter, a New York contractor who becomes the love interest of Runway magazine editor Andy Sachs (played by Anne Hathaway). Over the course of the film, Peter gets sidelined as Andy’s professional ambitions in the cutthroat world of fashion journalism consume her.

Reviews of “The Devil Wears Prada 2” have been mostly positive. Since its release, however, a number of dissenting voices have emerged, with many questioning whether Brammall’s character was necessary in a narrative about career-focused women.

A May 6 article in Cosmopolitan, for instance, deemed Peter “one-dimensional” and “an insult to single women everywhere,” with writer Megan Wallace arguing that the character’s “sole function is to remind us that employed, single men do exist.”

Cosmopolitan teased the article on Instagram earlier this week, further describing Peter as “useless.” The post, however, drew a swift rebuttal from Brammall’s real-life wife, fellow actor Harriet Dyer, who called it “mean.”

“They cut scenes out. The edit is brutal,” she wrote. “The scene all these pictures are from was cut.”

She went on to note: “I liked him. And I married him.”

As of Friday, Dyer’s post had received more than 6,100 likes and a plethora of responses, many of them supportive.

“Bloody amazing actor and personality. This is just a snide editorial piece,” one person wrote.

Added another: “I loved him in the movie. He added humour and is bloody handsome as well.”

Brammal and representatives for 20th Century Studios, which distributed “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.

As Dyer pointed out, however, photographers snapped images of Brammall and Hathaway on the New York set of “The Devil Wears Prada 2” last summer in which they appear to be shooting scenes that did not make the final cut.

In many respects, Peter’s arc in “The Devil Wears Prada 2” is similar to that of actor Adrian Grenier’s character, Nate, in the original 2006 film.

In the 20 years since the first movie’s release, Nate has come to be regarded by many viewers as its “true villain,” a point which Grenier ― who, notably, does not appear in “The Devil Wears Prada 2” ― has supported.

“I might’ve been as immature as him at the time, so I personally couldn’t see his shortcomings,” he told Entertainment Weekly in 2021. “But after time to reflect and much deliberation, I’ve come to realize the truth in that perspective.”

The scope of Brammall’s role aside, “The Devil Wears Prada 2” looks poised to be a breakout moment for the actor, who has appeared in an array of film and television projects in his native Australia but is a relative newcomer in the U.S. As of this week, the movie has raked in a reported $435.2 million at the box office worldwide, surpassing the 2006 original.

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