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Will Ferrell Injured on Set of New Golf Comedy, Stalls Shooting (Source)
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- Will Ferrell was injured while filming his untitled golf-centric comedy for Netflix, a source close to the situation tells PEOPLE
- Shooting was pushed back a week as he recovers, the source shared
- Molly Shannon will appear in the show alongside Ferrell, with fellow Saturday Night Live alum Harper Steele producing
Will Ferrell was injured while filming his upcoming Netflix golf comedy.
A source close to the situation tells PEOPLE, “He was hurt and they needed to shift the production schedule. Because they were supposed to start shooting here this week. It’s been pushed to next week.”
Filming for this portion of the as-yet-untitled series, Ferrell’s first TV comedy, is taking place in Los Angeles. TMZ was first to report the news. The nature of Ferrell’s injury is unknown.
The golf comedy will see Ferrell, 58, as a fictional golf legend named Lonnie “the Hawk” Hawkins navigating the changing landscape of the sport, according to Netflix and TMZ. Luke Wilson will play Ferrell’s competitive peer, “a pro golfer who has beaten Ferrell’s character for the tour championship twice before,” Netflix’s Tudum reports.
Ferrell’s Saturday Night Live castmate Molly Shannon will also appear as a character named Stacy in the untitled golf-centric project. Chris Parnell, another SNL alum, also joined the cast. Ferrell is co-producing the 10-episode series alongside longtime collaborators Chris Henchy and Harper Steele, according to IMdB.
Ferrell notably worked on SNL alongside Steele, 63. The comedy writer later came out as a transgender woman in 2022, and the pair of friends documented her coming out journey by filming a cross-country road trip for the 2024 documentary Will & Harper.
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“In talking to Harper, I knew she had slight trepidation doing the road trips that she’s done her whole life, now as a trans woman,” ” Ferrell told PEOPLE of the documentary in 2024. “And that triggered an idea in my head: What if I could go with her to those places? And at the same time we can have a discussion as to what it means to be trans, and I can ask all the questions I have as a cis male. But mostly it just felt like a fun thing for us to do.”
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