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Women Who Travel Podcast: Harper Steele on Navigating America in 'Will & Harper'
10.01.2025 - 12:43 / cntraveler.com
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Lale Arikoglu: Hi, there. I'm Lale Arikoglu, and this is Women Who Travel. Today, we're going on a road trip and exploring the story behind Netflix's documentary Will & Harper. 30 years ago, one Saturday Night Live writer and another actor became lifelong friends and collaborators. They are Harper Steele and Will Ferrell. In 2022, Steele came out to Ferrell about her gender transition.
And soon after, they decided to embark on a cross-country road trip to talk about whether or if or how their relationship might change. And I am so excited to have Harper on the show today to talk about that trip. You are, I think, in a hotel room right now. Where are you? Are you traveling?
Harper Steele: Yes, I am traveling. We're still showing the film to audiences and talking about the film, which I love. And I'm in New York City overlooking Central Park right now on a beautiful, beautiful, crisp, slightly too cold, sunny day.
LA: It is really cold outside. I stepped out this morning and was like, are we actually going to get a winter?
HS: No, I like this. I was unprepared too. This was a little bit of a detour coming to New York and I didn't know.
LA: When did you start having conversations about embarking on this trip with Will and how did the idea come about?
HS: Will and I during the pandemic, we hadn't seen each other in a long time. And I had written this letter saying I was going to come out and present as a woman and, that's the wrong way to say that, to live my life authentically. At any rate, I wrote this coming out letter, but I wasn't able to see Will. And then we ended up in Will's backyard still during the pandemic, and we were sitting around.
And he said, "How are these road trips..." Which I'm known for. I travel across the country back and forth many times. "How are these trips impacted by this new sort of decision?" And then he just out of the blue said, "What if we took a road trip and we filmed it?" And I'm very camera shy, so I said no. And then I sat around in my house for a while and thought about it, and a couple of factors.
One of them was that there was a lot of legislation and legal battles going on across the country and a lot of state houses that were fairly anti-trans, and I just thought there was something positive to do here, especially with a beloved actor like Will Ferrell.
LA: When Will asked you that question about how road trips, which clearly is a form of travel that's been important to you throughout your life, had you considered that answer before or was that a new thing for you to suddenly think about?
HS: Yes, I knew the ramifications of it and also the
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