When Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart set out to make Get Hard together it seems they understood the movie's script contained tons of racist stereotypes. According to the latest gossip news updates, the Old School star is answering her critics by insisting that the ridiculous character he plays in the new film is supposed to be an ignorant "Harvard assh-le". Proving that he hasn't let the controversy affect his sense of humor -- while out promoting the film with his diminutive Ride Along co-star, Ferrell recently channeled Anchorman's Ron Burgundy to give disgraced NBC newsman, Brian Williams, some career advice when he finally returns to his anchor desk.
Being that they knew the premise of their new movie, Get Hard, is predicated on the racist conceit that Will Ferrell's white collar criminal character assumes most if not all black men have been to jail, it makes sense that the Saturday Night Live star is ready to field some questions about his reasons for making the film.
While Kevin Hart has suggested critics of the film should, "go in the middle of the street and kill," themselves, Ferrell has no problem explaining to the Independent that his character's racism isn't supposed to be seen as an attribute:
"With all due respect to anyone who went to Harvard, including our director [Etan Cohen], I was thinking Harvard a**hole.
"As much as my character knows about financial dealings and how to make a lot of money, he really is completely ignorant about the rest of how the world works."
That being said, the Funny or Die co-founder isn't immune to the racial tensions festering in the country today, however, and told the New York Times that despite his being a member of a fraternity in college, he isn't so sure if the revelation at the University of Oklahoma shouldn't serve as a catalyst for throwing out the Greek system altogether:
"The incident in Oklahoma, that is a real argument for getting rid of the system altogether, in my opinion, even having been through a fraternity...Because when you break it down, it really is about creating cliques and clubs and being exclusionary.
"Fraternities were started as academic societies that were supposed to have a philanthropic arm to them.
"And when it's governed by those kind of rules, then they're still beneficial. But you got to be careful."
Thankfully, Will hasn't spent all his time promoting the movie talking about America's race relations.
During a recent interview with the NY Daily News, Ferrell did his best to intimate what advice Ron Burgundy would give NBC newsman Brian Williams in the wake of his recent suspension:
"I think Ron would tell Brian Williams to have a stiff upper lip, take a couple of months off and then just force himself on the air.
"Just walk into a live broadcast and take over."
Besides, says Ferrell, it's not like Ron hasn't been able to bounce back from even bigger on-air snafus:
"Also, he can take solace in the fact that Ron reported that the Vietnam War was over, that we had won it, about six months in...and then still worked for another 20 years."
Yeah...but that was before he got a job on at a major network.
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