Blake Energetic and The united states Ferrera’s sisterhood is going means past a couple of touring pants.
Following Ferrera’s 2024 Critics’ Selection Awards victory and empowering speech on Sunday, January 14, Energetic, 36, sang her former costar’s praises.
“Give this woman every stage, every statue, every microphone forever please,” Energetic wrote by way of her Instagram Tale on Monday, January 15, resharing a clip from the awards display. “My god we are blessed to orbit in the same times as you my sister, @Americaferrera.”
The video confirmed a beaming Ferrera, 39, as she articulated how commemorated she was once to obtain the SeeHer Award for her portrayal of Gloria in 2023’s Barbie.
“Receiving the SeeHer Award for my contributions to more authentic portrayals of women and girls [couldn’t] be 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 a part of a storytelling legacy that I could not see myself reflected in,” Ferrera started after incomes a status ovation from the group, together with Ryan Gosling, who performed Ken within the blockbuster hit.
She persisted: “Of course, I could feel myself in characters who were strong and complex. But these characters rarely, if ever, looked like me. I yearned to see people like myself on screen as full humans.”
The actress famous that after she set to work in Hollywood two decades in the past, it “seemed impossible that anyone could make a career portraying fully dimensional Latina characters.” Ferrera attributed the alternate in illustration to writers, administrators, manufacturers and extra folks in the back of the scenes who selected to “rewrite outdated stories and to challenge deeply entrenched biases” about Latina tradition.
“We are all worthy of having our lives richly and authentically reflective,” Ferrera declared earlier than thanking her Barbie opposite numbers.
She concluded with a message to the lads on set, pronouncing, “Thank you to our Kens — Noah Baumbach, Tom Ackerley, David Heyman and Ryan Gosling — for all being man enough to support women’s work. You are all brilliant and you are more than Kenough.”
Along with Energetic, fellow Sisterhood of the Touring Pants costar Amber Tamblyn additionally celebrated Ferrera’s milestone. “You’re extraordinary and that’s all there is to it. I love you. ❤️,” Tamblyn, 40, wrote within the feedback segment of Ferrera’s Instagram put up from the awards display.
Energetic, Ferrera, Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel were appearing up for every over since they starred in 2005’s Sisterhood of the Touring Pants and the 2008 sequel. Their most up-to-date reunion got here in December 2023 when all 4 actresses attended a different Barbie match in New York Town.
“I was so happy to celebrate my denim sister @americaferrera She’s the heart and soul of @barbiethemovie because she’s the heart and soul of everything she’s a part of,” Energetic captioned a sequence of Instagram footage final month. “Pants = Love. Love your sisters. Love yourself.”