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It was fitting that the New York City premiere of Josh Greenbaum’s new documentary, Will & Harper, had a last-minute delay of an hour thanks to the maelstrom of traffic chaos that hits the city each year when the United Nations General Assembly is in session. This is a movie that’s about a lot of things, and one of them is the importance of diplomacy.
In attendance at the event, in addition to the film’s subjects Will Ferrell and Harper Steele, were their Saturday Night Live alumni Kristen Wiig, Paula Pell, Seth Meyers, Tim Meadows and Rachel Dratch. Sam Rockwell, Leslie Bibb, Antoni Porowski and documentarians David France and Kimberly Reed were also in the audience.
Will & Harper, which Netflix is giving a strong awards push, highlights a cross-country drive taken by Ferrell and Steele, a comedy writer who created many of Ferrell’s memorable characters back at SNL, as well as some of his weirder projects, like the Spanish language Casa Di Mi Padre, the Lifetime film A Deadly Adoption and the more recent Netflix film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. The twist is that after 30 years of friendship, Steele has undergone gender transition—most of her comedy credits were under a previous name—and a lengthy car ride seems like a good opportunity to reorient themselves.
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