Hollywood is leaving Will Ferrell behind – and it will come to regret it
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Hollywood is leaving Will Ferrell behind – and it will come to regret it

The Independent  

I’m either a mid-level A-lister or a top-tier B-list actor,” remarked Will Ferrell in a recent interview with The New York Times. His latest film, Will & Harper, isn’t a comedy but a documentary, focusing on Ferrell’s longstanding friendship with his former Saturday Night Live colleague Harper Steele. open image in gallery Elf esteem: Will Ferrell as Buddy in the Christmas comedy ‘Elf’ Nobody could match Ferrell’s deadpan timing or his surreal imagination. open image in gallery Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams in ‘Eurovision’ But Ferrell is growing older, and Hollywood seemingly no longer has much use for funnymen like him. True, Greta Gerwig’s comedy Barbie, in which Ferrell had a cameo as the CEO of toy manufacturer Mattel, was a runaway hit last year, but this was an exceptional case – and no one would describe it as a “Will Ferrell film”.

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