On the scene at the New York premiere of “Will & Harper,” where Ferrell and his transgender comedy friend Harper Steele spoke about how the film could save lives.
On the scene at the New York premiere of “Will & Harper,” where Ferrell and his transgender comedy friend Harper Steele spoke about how the film could save lives., had a last-minute delay of an hour thanks to the maelstrom of traffic chaos that hits the city each year when the United Nations General Assembly is in session., Tim Meadows and Rachel Dratch. Sam Rockwell, Leslie Bibb, Antoni Porowski and documentarians David France and Kimberly Reed were also in the audience.
There’s also a more specific goal. One of Steele’s great passions in life has been exploring the country’s blue highways, its dive bars and racetracks. How would she navigate those spaces as a trans woman that, as she says ruefully, does not pass? The ability to deploy the zany, beloved Will Ferrell to smooth out tensions in locations far from New York or Los Angeles is a handy tool, which works most of the time.
A recurring bit was Ferrell calling every personal injury attorney who advertised on billboards. Also excised was an ongoing argument over whether Ferrell is an A-lister or B-lister. It apparently got so heated they FaceTimed some of their famous friends, likeSeth Meyers led the team through some of the mechanics of making a film like this—everyone agreed that after the third day you kinda forget the cameras are there—and also the project’s wider goals.
One of the film’s most touching scenes is when Steele goes back to the Iowa City house she grew up in. It’s also one of the strangest, because she used to ride a unicycle and, wouldn’t you know it, a teenager on a unicycle rides by. “Coming out as trans made me a super-person, as in Marvel. I made a unicycle appear,” she deadpanned to the crowd, then added “the best thing was that kid had no idea who Will Ferrell was.
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