Posted on 10/09/2024 9:10:28 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
After a tough night of filming in Texas, Will Ferrell broke down in tears while filming alongside his friend Harper Steele for their new Netflix documentary, "Will & Harper."
The documentary, which dropped Sept. 27 on Netflix, features longtime "Saturday Night Live" pals Ferrell and Steele as they travel across the country to reintroduce Steele to America after she came out as a trans woman.
The pair visited Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo to compete in the restaurant's famed 72-ounce steak eating contest, for which the competitors were placed on a stage in front of a gathering audience. As more people began to crowd around the duo to take photos, Ferrell said he began to feel uncomfortable.
"As much as I’ve been in a fishbowl in various times in my life," he said while in the restaurant, "this trumps all of it."
In a clip shared to Facebook in March 2023 while Ferrell and Steele were filming, restaurant workers seemed to give the duo a warm welcome and addressed Steele using her correct pronouns.
According to the film, however, restaurant patrons and TikTok users didn't extend the same Southern kindness. The crowd groaned and went silent when Steele and Ferrell raised a toast to trans rights in an unaired scene, and after the duo left the restaurant, the film depicted a series of transphobic social media posts directed at Steele. The two discussed the ordeal in the car the following day.
"The room started to feel very... wrong to me," Steele said. "I was feeling a little like my trans-ness was on display, I guess. And suddenly, that sort of made me feel... not great."
Big Texan Steak Ranch did not respond to an Express-News request for comment.
When Ferrell unpacked how he felt about those moments, he began to cry. "The saddest part for me is, uh... I just feel... I feel like I let you down in that moment," he said as Steele comforted him. "I was like, 'Oh, s***, We gotta worry about Harper's safety.' You know, like what... That’s where I just... I feel like I... Yeah."
In an interview with The Independent, Ferrell commented on why he believes people may feel threatened by people who identify as trans.
"Harper is finally... her. She’s finally who she was always meant to be," Ferrell said. "Why is that threatening to you? If the trans community is a threat to you, I think it stems from not being confident or safe with yourself."
a nobody among nobodies.
Who is he?
Never heard of him.
Crying is one of the requirements of white guilt.
headline: narcissists are sad some people won’t play their game
Never been a fan…only found him mildly amusing, and rarely. Even less,now.
Nobody cares. Nobody.
he was great in ELF- give him that.
“Will Ferrell tops most overpaid Hollywood stars list”
I’m trying to figure out what they expected to happen when they did their toast. Talk about virtue signaling well I guess that’ll be one documentary. I will have to miss. Ferrell used to be pretty funny. I think a long time ago, but as he is aged, he is become less funny and more irrelevant.
“Who is he?
Never heard of him.”
He is the one who ruins good films
The Other Guys- you see him and fast forward
The Internship - Leap for the fast forward
He is disturbed and disturbingly disgusting on film
I do not care what he thinks. He doesn’t care what his audience thinks
He can go away
In the “real world” how would their gender/sexuality come up in a social conversation?
I guess if you go around “presenting” yourself and making this stuff an issue without context you should expect some “feedback.”
STRAIGHT(?) white guilt?
There is nothing amusing about Hollywood types trying to cram Deep State propaganda down our throats.
A very true statement.
It's not. Why is my disagreement with it threatening to you?
“I’m trying to figure out what they expected to happen when they did their toast. “
They got what they wanted
Clips to put in their documentary showing bigoted Texans
Where’s the BARF alert?
Thanks for posting this. It is a reaffirmation of my instincts when it comes to personal dislikes of certain celebrities. I have never been able to stomach Will Ferrell... but could previously never quite identify the “why”. Now I realize that my gut feeling was spot-on. Thanks again.
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