Will Ferrell Had ‘Zero Knowledge’ About the Trans Community, then His Best Friend Came Out

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Will Ferrell Had ‘Zero Knowledge’ About the Trans Community. Then His Best Friend of 30 Years Came Out: ‘This Was All New Territory for Me’

 

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“It was three summers ago in which Harper emailed a lot of her close friends with the headline: ‘Here’s a Weird One,'” Ferrell said at the Variety Studio presented by Audible. “She went on to explain she was going to transition and we were all of course excited to hear the news and surprised to hear the news. All of us were extremely supportive and expressed love…but that sort of opened the questions like, how can we help you? What do you need us to do?”

 

Ferrell said he had “zero knowledge” about the trans community before Harper came out to him.

“I had met trans people, but I didn’t have anyone personally in my life,” Ferrell said. “So this was all new territory for me, which is why I think this film is so exciting for us to kind of put out there in the world.

 

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Will Ferrell’s road-trip doc could be the biggest in Sundance history

In ‘Will & Harper,’ the comedian drives across America with Harper Steele, his friend of 30 years who’s recently transitioned. It got the biggest standing ovation of the festival and is rumored to have sparked a major bidding war.

 

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