The trans 'Will & Grace' is here, and it's a Netflix road movie starring Will Ferrell

With 'Will & Harper,' the 'SNL' star and his friend Harper Steele face a new twist on an old challenge in LGBTQ+ representation: How to educate cis viewers without alienating trans ones.

Will Ferrell is building up a head of steam. Seated in the nondescript hotel conference room that's been seized for our interview — a setting that lends our conversation the air of 'Between Two Ferns' — the actor has taken up the subject of transphobia in Hollywood films like 'Ace Ventura' and is running with it. 'The entertainment culture has taught us to have a flippant attitude that trans people aren't real people,' Ferrell says. 'It's silly.

' But politicians' and pundits' use of transgender people as a scapegoat would not be possible without their historical mistreatment, or outright erasure, in popular culture. As for the roughly 60% of Americans who do not know a trans person, according to Pew, 'Will & Harper' hopes to be an introduction: 'Now you know Harper,' Greenbaum says.

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