This is Fresh Air. I'm Terry Gross.

Will Farrell found out about three years ago

that his close friend and former Saturday Night Live

writing partner was coming out as a trans woman

named Harper Steel.

Farrell decided to make a documentary about this transitional period in their friendship.

Early in the film, Will and Harper read the coming-out letter Harper sent to Will in 2021 when Harper was 59.

Will reads first.

Hey Will, something I need you to know. I'm old now and as ridiculous and unnecessary as it may seem to report

I'll be transitioning to live as a woman.

In the last 10 years, I've been trying to understand what's going on.

Tried to get rid of it over and over again throughout my life.

And now I'm giving up the fight. When I was young I thought all boys felt like me.

Then I thought maybe I'm just a weirdo. Then I pushed it away for many years and ended up in therapy.

It's a wonderful thing when your mind and body revolt against the unnatural

despondent thing you become.

I doubt being a trans woman will change my personality that much instead of an

asshole I'll be a bitch I think it's made me a lot happier I'd like to say my

happiness translates to a bright carefree future full of

courage and confidence but no such luck. I carry self-doubt and fear around me like

the comedian I've been my whole life.

As their friendship journeys into new territory, the film follows Will and Harper on a cross-country

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