Meet It Ends With Us’ Isabela Ferrer, who plays a young Lily Bloom: the Irish-Puerto Rican actress was mentored by co-star Blake Lively, who’s also been styling her for their red carpet appearances

Amjad Ali August 15, 2024

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If you’ve been keeping up with Lively lately, then you’ve probably come across Isabela Ferrer, who’s been joining her on several red carpets. Ferrer – who plays a younger version of Blake Lively’s character Lily Bloom in the film – bears a striking resemblance to the Hollywood star. In fact, they even have the same mole on the right side of their nose!

Here’s what you need to know about the up-and-coming actress – and Blake Lively’s mini-me:

Where is Isabela Ferrer from?

Isabela Ferrer even has a mole in the same position on her face as Blake Lively. Photo: @isabela.ferrer/Instagram

Ferrer, 23, has Irish and Puerto Rican roots, according to her profile on her university website. Per the source, she grew up in the West Village in New York City and in the countryside of Northern Ireland, where her mum’s family live.

Where did Isabela Ferrer study?

Isabela Ferrer studied at the prestigious Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama. Photo: @isabela.ferrer/Instagram

Ferrer attended Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama, where she was studying for a BFA in drama and music theatre. Besides acting, Ferrer also has experience in theatre, live jazz, short films and student-produced plays, according to her bio on the school’s website. The same source adds that she enjoys painting with acrylics, reading autobiographies and “listening to music that is from decades before her generation”.

What films and TV shows has Isabela Ferrer starred in?

Isabela Ferrer has said that Blake Lively made her feel supported and uplifted during filming. Photo: @isabela.ferrer/Instagram

It Ends With Us marks Ferrer’s film debut, according to IMDb. She also had a minor role as the “astrology girl” in a TV series called Evil and was in a short film called Fire Burning, which were both released this year as well.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Ferrer said she was grateful to have been entrusted to play a young version of Lively’s character in her youth. “I knew how important this movie was and how important Colleen is,” she told the publication. “Also, what a nice compliment to be like, ‘Could you play young Blake Lively?’ That’s the biggest compliment I’ve ever gotten in my whole life.”

She’s a budding fashionista

Isabela Ferrer has been sharing photos of her newly glamorous life as a Hollywood starlet on her Instagram. Photo: @isabela.ferrer/Instagram

Despite being a new face in Hollywood, Ferrer is already proving that she has a strong sense of style. On her Instagram feed, she’s already shared photos of herself wearing outfits from Oscar de la Renta and 16Arlington, and Manolo Blahnik and Christian Louboutin shoes. In one Instagram caption, she wrote that Lively gave her a hand with the outfits. “@blakelively styling me (still can’t believe I get to say that??)” she wrote.

She looks up to Blake Lively

Isabela Ferrer split her time between Northern Ireland and New York when she was growing up. Photo: @isabela.ferrer/Instagram

Ferrer has gushed about what an honour it has been to work with an A-lister like Blake Lively. In their joint interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Ferrer shared an anecdote from their interactions. “You came up to me and you were like, ‘I want you to know that this role is just as much yours as it is mine,’” she recounted. “It was like the most supportive and uplifting thing to feel as a young actor coming into this, to feel like somebody like you who has such a high status and is so important in this project to also be like, ‘What do you think?’ That’s the biggest privilege and compliment.”

What is the controversy behind It Ends With Us?

Even before the film project was announced, there was backlash against the book it is based on. According to Rolling Stone, the novel and the film have both been criticised for “trivialising” domestic abuse by focusing too much on the romance elements of the story. And not everyone was happy when they found out about the film’s casting either, with Screenrant reporting in May that many thought Lively – who was 35 during filming – was too old to play the character of Lily, who is around 23 in the novel.

Now there’s drama around the film’s director and male lead Justin Baldoni, who has been promoting the film separately from the rest of cast and was unfollowed by Blake Lively and the book’s author Colleen Hooven on Instagram, according to USA Today.

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