Will Ferrell breaks down in tears after a rough night in Texas with his friend Harper Steele in their new Netflix documentary Will & Harper. The film follows the friends of 30 years on a road trip across America to reintroduce Steele, former head writer at Saturday Night Live , to her country after she came out as a trans woman and transitioned during the pandemic. At one point on the trip, the duo stop at the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, where they take on its famous 72-ounce steak-eating challenge.
The two are placed on a stage to complete the challenge and a crowd quickly gathers around them as diners film and take photos of Ferrell. “As much as I’ve been in a fishbowl in various times in my life, this trumps all of it,” Ferrell says in the restaurant. The film then shows a selection of transphobic tweets about Steele shared after the public sighting.
In the car the next day, Steele says: “The room started to feel very...
wrong to me, and, I mean, the crowds that come around you so quickly. I was feeling a little like my trans-ness was on display, I guess. And suddenly, that sort of made me feel.
.. not great.
” Ferrell begins to cry before saying: “The saddest part for me is, uh...
I just feel...
I feel like I let you down in that moment.” Steele comforts her friend before the Step Brothers star adds: “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.
” Dir.