Will Ferrell’s Road Trip Movie With His Trans Best Friend Will Save Lives
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Courtesy of Sundance InstituteThis review originally published during the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Will & Harper is now available to stream on Netflix.Will Ferrell and his dear friend Harper Steele began working at Saturday Night Live the same season, nearly 30 years ago.Ferrell was cast as a performer, and Steele was hired as a writer. The early buzz on Ferrell was that he was a “dud,” Steele says. But Steele understood the now-SNL legend’s peculiar gifts, writing many of Ferrell’s most famous sketches, the beginning of a creative partnership and deep friendship that has lasted decades and bled over into Ferrell’s movie career. The most ridiculous, head-scratching projects he’s acted in, Ferrell says—an Icelandic pop star in Eurovision Song Contest; Lifetime movie A Deadly Adoption; Casa de mi padre, a comedy that is entirely in Spanish—Steele was behind.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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