After debuting to a warm reception at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and making the rounds at multiple fall film festivals including TIFF, Will Ferrell and collaborator Harper Steele’s road-trip documentary, “Will & Harper,” is finally available to stream on Netflix . The film, which follows Ferrell and his friend traveling across America while coming to understand Steele’s physical and spiritual transition into womanhood along the way, is being released at the height of an election season that sees two candidates who are diametrically opposed on issues relating to LGBTQ rights. Despite this timing, in a recent interview with The Independent , Ferrell explained how the efforts of this project go beyond politics.
“There is hatred out there,” he said. “It’s very real and it’s very unsafe for trans people in certain situations. But I don’t know why trans people are meant to be threatening to me as a cis male.
I don’t know why Harper is threatening to me. It’s so strange to me, because Harper is finally..
. her . She’s finally who she was always meant to be.
Whether or not you can ultimately wrap your head around that, why would you care if somebody’s happy? 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.” The director behind “Will & Harper,” Josh Greenbaum ( “Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar,” “Strays”), shares Ferrell’s sentiments, and desp.
