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About halfway through director Josh Greenbaum’s new road trip documentary, “Will & Harper,” comedian Will Ferrell looks across the car at his longtime friend and collaborator Harper Steele and says, already laughing, “Here’s a question: Do you think you’re a worse driver as a female driver?” At that point, the pair is over a week into the 16-day cross-country tour that serves as the basis for the film, which explores how coming out as transgender can change a friendship, set to a soundtrack...
But the sense that doing the documentary could help other trans people, as well as push her to be in spaces that felt scary to be in after coming out, ended up trumping her hesitancy about being in front of the camera. And once she was on board, she said, she embraced the opportunity to talk openly on film about her transition. “I was never too afraid to talk about myself,” she said.
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