Harper Steele on crossing the country with Will Ferrell

26 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube interview in which Harper Steele and Will Ferrell discuss crossing the country as a trans woman. Steele highlights safety concerns and how traveling with a camera crew and her relative privilege shape her experience; Ferrell and Steele note that humor helps open conversations and that their interaction felt natural.

Crossing the country as a trans woman.
Is a lot different.
Than crossing the country as a trans woman.
With Will Ferrell, that's just a.
Different experience. Crossing it with a camera crew.
Is a different experience.
It's not as safe. And my privilege and sort of my ability to kind.
Of do that that.
Way is not an average.
Person'S experience.
Going across humor, though, is, as my.
Director likes to say, it's the shortest distance between people. It's a great way to sort of allow people.
In and get conversations started.
It's what I've.
Used my whole life.
So it.
Wasn'T anything, you know, planned.
It was just what's.
Natural for Will and I.