Will Ferrell on That Time He Hit a Cheerleader in the Face With a Ball

Posted by Jenniffer Sheldon on Saturday, August 17, 2024

In January, a video of Will Ferrell nailing a cheerleader in the face with a basketball during a Los Angeles Lakers and New Orleans Pelicans game went viral, and although it was simply part of the filming for a movie, it had us all cracking up!

Now that movie, Daddy's Home, will hit theaters on Christmas Day, and Ferrell is remembering what it was like to film that scene almost a year ago.

"That was a blast," the 48-year-old actor tells Collider. "I don't know if [Mark Wahlberg's] ever done anything [like that]…We had six minutes there [at the Lakers game] at half time to do this thing and prior to that, the front part of the scene where the kids are getting to meet Kobe [Bryant], so that energy and that momentum of having to do that that night was spectacular."

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