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Picture the scene. It’s 14 years on from the release of DreamWorks’ Megamind, which might’ve been overshadowed by the similarly themed Despicable Me at the time but has gone to become a passionate cult favorite, and the trailer for the long-awaited sequel has finally arrived. Megamind mega-fans the world over excitedly click play only for their faces to fall within seconds. Why? Because Will Ferrell is nowhere to be heard. Yes, in what is surely the biggest atrocity to hit Metrocity in this franchise, Will Ferrell is…

Will & Harper, the doc about friends Will Ferrell and Harper Steele, has landed at Netflix in a massive eight-figure deal. The doc is about friends reconnecting after a major life event, and those friends just happen to be Ferrell and former Saturday Night Live head writer Steele. Following Steele coming out as a trans woman, the duo set out together for a cross-country trip, during which they talk in depth about their friendship and the experience of being trans in America. Josh Greenbaum…

Long before she transitioned, Harper Steele was a writer at Saturday Night Live. She was hired in 1995, the same week that a performer named Will Ferrell joined the cast. Unlike his fellow Groundlings Chris Kattan and Cheri Oteri, who’d also been recruited from the L.A.-based improv group to join SNL that season, Ferrell had a hard time finding his groove right away. No one quite knew how to use this tall comedian with the deadpan stare and an ability to go from 1 to 1,000 on the rage scale in seconds flat. But Steele…

Sierra Ferrell is standing in the middle of a vintage store in East Nashville, twirling a pair of leather Seventies-era shoes in one hand with a stack of jackets in the other. “Loafers!” she proclaims with the enthusiasm of someone hunting for gems and coming up with a rare quartz. She flips one over, inspects the chunky wood heel and then reluctantly places it back on the shelf. “Those look like they are going to hurt my back. I mean, it’s all downhill from here.” This is hard to believe, because a few months ago…

When you’re a comedy firestarter like actor Will Ferrell, you tend to land a lot of iconic quotes throughout your career. As a Saturday Night Live mainstay turned cinematic superstar, there’s nothing the man hasn’t said, and a lot of it is absolute gold. So to celebrate that fact, we’re about to run through 32 of the best moments from the funniest Will Ferrell movies and TV appearances the man has gifted the world.(Image credit: DreamWorks Pictures)“You stay classy, San Diego!” - Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron BurgundyHow…

Will Ferrell called for women to take over the world as he opened The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Women in Entertainment gala, presented by Lifetime, on Thursday at The Beverly Hills Hotel. “This is such a wonderful event where we honor and support and continue to fight for women in all facets of the entertainment world,” said Ferrell before adding, “Forget about the entertainment world, isn’t it just time? Isn’t it just time for women to run the planet?” he asked to resounding applause. “I’m not just…

Twenty years on, this has become a canonical Christmas comedy favourite. A jovial seasonal treat, from director Jon Favreau and screenwriter David Berenbaum, Elf was reportedly inspired by Tom Hanks in Big, but took on a life of its own once Will Ferrell became involved, improvising many of his lines and endowing the whole thing with a more ironised manic energy.The film’s old-fashioned charm and sweet-natured Yuletide spirit has held up, although it interestingly seems attractive now more for these softer-edged qualities…

The first rule in the Code of Elves is to “treat every day like Christmas”, and that, in a nutshell, is Will Ferrell’s comic style. At 6ft 3in, he’s almost always the tallest actor on screen yet his instinct is to play even bigger, with an ungainly exuberance that tends to set the tone for whatever scene he’s in. He’s a Bergdorf Goodman window display. He’s the neighbor who nearly kills himself every year hanging enough lights and gaudy holiday bric-a-brac around his house to slow traffic in the subdivision. He couldn’t…

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviewsSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Eurovision is underway this week, which means it’s about time we revisited the epic film, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.With a star-studded cast including Will Ferrell as co-writer and co-star opposite Rachel McAdams, the movie follows Lars Erickssong and Sigrit Ericksdottir, an Icelandic pop duo determined to win over their small town and represent Iceland at the Eurovision…

These days, I’d assume people would be extremely excited if they happened to run into the man behind Buddy the Elf in public. However, before Will Ferrell starred in one of the most popular Christmas movies, he was a mall Santa, and not everyone was excited to run into him and his mall elf Chris Kattan, especially Kevin Costner. While on Hot Ones, Ferrell was asked to run through the highlights and challenges of being a mall Santa during the early days of his acting career. He started out by explaining the hijinks he and…