“We like doing fun, strange stuff together and this was going to be another chapter.”

Harper Steele started working onSNLin the same week and Will and the rest was history.

Harper worked atSNLfor 13 years, eventually becoming a head writer and also winning an Emmy.

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Did you feel a big change in your relationship now it was up to you to hold Harper up?

And I know it’s not going to be easy and it’s going to be an adjustment.

But if you hear me getting misgendered, do your best to correct that and help."

Will Ferrell stands in an office wearing a cropped USA shirt and American flag briefs, holding a mug. Two coworkers look displeased

But we also like doing fun, strange stuff together and this was going to be another chapter.

Harper Steele:I think sort of, we do have a new definition or well I do.

Those are the real friends and I have those friends, I’m fortunate enough to have those friends.

Movie poster for "Will & Harper": An elderly woman and a man drive through a scenic mountain landscape. It premieres on Netflix on September 27

But I didn’t really appreciate the work that goes into it.

And I felt like, “Oh, yeah, I feel better for knowing this.

Maybe I might be a better friend now.”

Will Ferrell and an older woman smile and hold a model rocket and a shopping bag outside a Fireworks World store

That was a learning experience for me.

As a writer and a creator, so much of yourself is put into your work.

Now you’re in a new phase of life, has your writing changed at all?

An older couple sits in camping chairs in an open, dry field beside a vehicle, enjoying the outdoors under a clear sky

Do you imagine it having more depth now you’re able to live as your full authentic self?

How has it affected your creative process?

That’s been a developing thing way before I transitioned.

So I don’t know, I haven’t really put anything big out there since I transitioned.

So this will be fascinating to me.