When new actor Isabela Ferrer was cast to play young Lily Bloom (a foil to our September cover star Blake Lively) in the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us, she says it felt like a dream. We’re Zooming mid-press junket from a strangely gray room—and while Ferrer is wearing a white ensemble, she’s still a bold splash of color in the space. “I want people to know that there was so much effort and care put into this film,” she tells me. “I hope people think that it equals the book, but also know that it is its own entity.”
At this moment, the 24-year-old is just “trying to be a sponge.” From taking fashion tips from Lively—who styled her for the New York film junkets—to trying out new beauty looks she never would have done on her own, Ferrer is here for the very exciting ride.
“Blake is so true to herself when she’s styling, and she really listens to me,” she says, comparing the experience to friends getting ready for a night going out. “She has given me a lot of agency and access, as well as the opportunity to delve into designers that I wouldn’t otherwise be able to wear at this point in my career.” So far, Ferrer has worn multiple dresses by Oscar de la Renta, as well as a dress by Simone Rocha, and stacks upon stacks of jewels, all from diamond dionne Lorraine Schwartz. For tonight’s London premiere, it’s Burberry, darling—a halter with a nod to the floral-mania method dressing that Lively has also been enjoying.
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The press tour has also allowed her to explore beauty looks she normally wouldn’t have gravitated toward—especially for London’s premiere. “I am a roll-out-of-bed, lazy beauty girl,” she says. But with the gentle encouragement of makeup artist Sarah Hill and hairstylist Peter Lux, Ferrer went for the red carpet classic: an updo and red lip. “I would have been so scared to do a look like this a few years ago because it’s so daring and I didn’t think it could ever look good on me.” There’s another exciting thing coming out of this beauty experimentation, too: “I’m finally learning about things like contour,” she says. “And it’s never too late! This is the moment.”
Whether she’s in her hometown of New York City or traveling to London or Boston (where the movie was partially filmed), these are Ferrer’s day-to-day beauty favorites that she always has on hand (she’s “all about the moisture”): the tiny Vaseline Lip Therapy Cocoa Butter Lip Balm and the Dermologica Stabilizing Repair Cream.