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."
I laughed out loud when he burped in Elf. Otherwise, he is worth a slight smile and “Must be avoided” tag.
So true..... Doesn’t Ferris have like testicular cancer, or a hangnail or something? Please give to SaveFerris...lol
Ok elf is great. Not for the belching.
For the “ssson of a nutcracker”, the mailroom dancing” and the “Francisco, Francisco”
“SHE” should have had some dental work done and a nose job at the very least.
Why don’t you just get your stupid ass back to Canada where you belong, Will? Leave good American’s out of your insanity.
“Harper is finally... her. She’s finally who she was always meant to be,” Ferrell said. “Why is that threatening to you?
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Because it’s delusional and the big lie’s promoters are dangerously intolerant of anyone based in reality.
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