A very funny road trip movie that also happens to be very moving, “Will & Harper” gets in a car with Will Ferrell and one of his closest friends, writer Harper Steele, for a trip across the United States in the wake of Steele’s gender transition. As Kristen Wiig’s theme song puts it: “Harper and Will go west/Just two old friends and two brand new breasts.”
How did you get involved in the film? It came after Will and Harper had already decided to make a trip across the country, and potentially film it?
Yeah. once the idea of doing this road trip came about, the possibility of it being a documentary is when I became part of the conversation, as a documentary filmmaker but also as a fairly long friend of both Will and Harper.