Blake Lively Praises 'Sister' America Ferrera After Critics Choice Win
Blake Lively, America Ferrera
Taylor Hill/Getty Images; Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Critics Choice AssociationBlake Lively And America Ferrera's sisterhood goes far beyond travel pants.
Following Ferrera's win at the 2024 Critics' Choice Awards and her powerful speech on Sunday, January 14, Lively, 36, sang her former co-star's praises.
“Give this woman every stage, every statue, every microphone forever,” Lively wrote via her Instagram Story on Monday, January 15, resharing a clip from the awards ceremony. “My god, we are blessed to be around the same times as you, my sister, @Americaferrera.”
The stars are in attendance and rocking the red carpet at the 2024 Critics Choice Awards. Ahead of the 29th annual ceremony at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, on Sunday, January 14, the biggest names in Hollywood showed us their fashionable side in unforgettable looks. After posing for photographers and mingling with their colleagues […]
The video showed a beaming Ferrera, 39, as she expressed how honored she was to receive the SeeHer Award for her portrayal of Gloria in the 2023 film. Barbie.
“Receiving the SeeHer Award for my contributions to more authentic portraits of women and girls [couldn’t] are more meaningful to me. Because I grew up as a first-generation Honduran-American girl, in love with TV, film and theater, who desperately wanted to be part of a legacy of storytelling in which I did not see myself reflected,” Ferrera began after receiving a standing ovation got from the crowd, including Ryan Goslingwho played Ken in the blockbuster.
She continued, “Of course I could feel myself in characters that were strong and complex. But these characters rarely, if ever, looked like me. I longed to see people like me as full-fledged human beings on screen.”
The actress noted that when she started working in Hollywood 20 years ago, it seemed “impossible that anyone could make a career out of portraying fully dimensional Latina characters.” Ferrera attributed the change in representation to writers, directors, producers and more people behind the scenes who chose to “rewrite outdated narratives and challenge deep-seated prejudices” about Latina culture.
The bonds of sisterhood! Blake Lively, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera and Amber Tamblyn have followed in the footsteps of their Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants characters by creating an everlasting friendship that dates back to the original 2005 film. As the Sisterhood films showed, Bridget passed (Lively), Lena (Bledel), Carmen (Ferrera) and Tibby (Tamblyn) a few apparently […]
“We are all worthy of having our lives richly and authentically reflective,” Ferrera declared before thanking her Barbie counterparts.
She concluded with a message to the men on set, saying: 'Thank you to our Kens – Noah Baumbach, Tom Ackerley, David Heyman and Ryan Gosling – all of whom are man enough to support women's work. You are all brilliant and you are more than Kenough.”
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is the ultimate girl-power film from the early 2000s, and the cast is still closer than ever. The coming-of-age film, starring Blake Lively, Alexis Bledel, Amber Tamblyn and America Ferrera, hit theaters on June 1, 2005 and its message of female empowerment and friendship quickly gained popularity. […]
Next to Lively, dude Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Co-star Amber Tamblyn also celebrated Ferrera's milestone. “You're extraordinary and that's all. I love you. ❤️,” Tamblyn, 40, wrote in the comments section of Ferrera's Instagram post of the award ceremony.
Blake Lively and America Ferrera
Rabbani and Solimene Photography/WireImage/Getty ImagesLively, Ferrera, Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel showing up for every time since they starred in 2005 Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and the 2008 sequel. Their most recent reunion took place in December 2023, when all four actresses attended a special Barbie event in New York City.
“I was so happy to celebrate my denim sister @americaferrera. She is the heart and soul of @barbiethemovie because she is the heart and soul of everything she is a part of,” Lively wrote in a series of Instagram photos last month. “Pants = Love. Love your sisters. Love yourself.”