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Will Ferrell Says Trans Community’s Support of ‘Will & Harper’ Has “Blown Us Away”

Ferrell and longtime friend Harper Steele, who recently came out as a trans woman, go on a cross-country road trip in the Netflix doc.

“The ultimate selling point, I don’t want to sound like a politician or altruistic, but there were a lot of trans bills, a lot of legislation being introduced, legislation across every state, across the country and it’s still looking a little restrictive and maybe a little dire for trans people,” Steele told The Hollywood Reporter at the film’s L.A. premiere on Thursday. “Harper loves to do these cross-country road trips, she’s done hundreds of them, and since she had transitioned she hadn’t done any,” director Josh Greenbaum explained. “Will realized that and she was kind of lamenting the fact that she wasn’t sure if she felt safe, so the idea really started there because Will said, ‘Why don’t I fly to New York and I’ll be by your side for your first cross-country road trip as Harper.

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