The most famous role Audrey Hepburn is known for is playing Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Even today, she is frequently mentioned because of the significant impact she had on pop culture.

The actress died many years ago, but her granddaughter Emma Ferrer bears a striking likeness to her.

Emma Ferrer was born in May 1994. Audrey Hepburn, her paternal grandmother, died a little more than a year ago. Therefore, while Ferrer never met her grandma, she has learned a lot about her throughout the course of her life over the past 28 years.

She has an impression of what her late grandma was like as a person and performer based on seeing films in which her grandmother appeared or on the information given to her by members of her family.

“Slowly, I started visiting friends’ houses and saw that she was on a poster in their kitchen, or I would see her on a T-shirt or on handbags.” I was thinking, ‘I suppose this is a bigger thing than I imagined,” Ferrer said in an interview.

Now that she’s older, she knows how much her grandmother changed the world. The Belgian-born actress won an Oscar in her early twenties and is credited with popularizing the black turtleneck. She was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 for her efforts as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, a position she had held since 1989.

“She really changed what we take for granted now—having a celebrity of her size affiliated with a cause as she was,” said Ferrer of her grandmother. “But at the time, I’m not sure we can truly comprehend how groundbreaking that was.”

According to Ferrer, working closely with UNICEF provides “a means for me to really sort of feel a connection to her that… I’ve battled to feel anything else.”

Even though they may not have talked to each other, Emma Ferrer has gotten her grandmother’s beauty. The young woman, a professional artist, has her grandmother’s signature black hair and beautiful, expressive eyes.

Sean Hepburn Ferrer, the late actress’s oldest son from her first marriage to actor Mel Ferrer, is Emma’s father. Her second marriage to Italian physician Andrea Dotti produced another son, Luca Dotti.

Emma describes her father telling her stories about her late grandma that she would not have heard from anybody or anyplace else.

“There’s an intimacy in what my father tells me about her and the tales people who knew her tell me,” Ferrer added.

“When working on-site, she would utilize her lunch break to prepare a meal for the entire team. She did this renowned — I believe it was a series on gardens throughout the world with this… big news TV presenter. This newswoman had a stain on her shirt, so my grandma removed it and washed it at her hotel room dry cleaner.”

“These little things, she always sent flowers, and if you were staying at her place, she would bring breakfast in bed,” Ferrer added. “She simply did these tiny things that made her look like the greatest, kindest person,” Ferrer says of what she knows and has heard.

Ferrer is also proud of her grandma since she prioritized her children above her job.

“Mom had this great career, and she took really large steps back from it when my dad and his brother were born. She really put her entire career on the line for them, turning down projects where her agency and husband were like, ‘What are you doing?” You must take up this responsibility,” Ferrer declares boldly.

It is thought that Hepburn did this as a result of her own early experiences with her father. She allegedly had a “very strained” connection with her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston. “She understood what it meant to have that suffering with parents,” Ferrer continues, “and so I genuinely think she took her connection with her kids very seriously.”

She also talks about how her grandmother was “a child of a war-torn generation,” which changed her way of thinking and life.

“She began her career as a ballerina, but it didn’t work out. And then she was thrown into this arena — this world of Hollywood — and I think that coming off the heels of WWII, everything was just going quicker,” Ferrer remarked.

While Hepburn’s family was aristocratic, they were “living off of bread” during the war, which made her realize “I’ll never be so connected to material things, no matter what,” according to Ferrer.

As a result, the items Hepburn left behind are “not particularly valuable,” per se, but are “dear,” according to Ferrer.

“I have her tiny linen teddy bear that’s so old and has a coffee stain on it, and it’s still on my bed at my dad’s place. And I have sweaters that I’ve worn so many times over the years that I forget they’re hers,” she continued.

She also has some costume jewelry from movies that her grandma wore. “They’re not precious metals at all,” she explains, “but it’s a lovely way to feel like she’s teaching me stuff.”

Her grandma has also taught her that life is far more essential than everything else. Her grandma, she claimed, was “putting the life of a kid above politics, before anything else.” “She was never political,” she says.

That makes her worry about what her grandma would think of the current status of the globe. “I would love to have…” she says. a trailer for everything that has happened since she died, and then just said, ‘OK, so hit me. ‘How are you feeling today?'”

Ferrer says she has watched her grandmother’s movies to get to know her, but the experience has been bittersweet. She exclaims, “This is a very abstract concept, and I’m surprised you picked up on it.” It’s this duality of wishing I had had the chance to meet her and feeling incredibly terrified by who she is,” she continues. … In that manner, it’s a little like pushing and pulling.”

“My father frequently asserts that no one has ever had anything negative to say about Audrey Hepburn, which is absolutely true,” she continues.”What could you possibly say negatively about her?”

It’s so touching to witness how Audrey Hepburn’s granddaughter Emma Ferrer keeps her grandmother’s memories alive despite the fact that she never met her.

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