Will Ferrell made a rare move on Thursday.
The 57-year-old Hollywood actor posed with his wife Viveca Paulin and two of their sons. They were with Mattias and Magnus.
They stood arm in arm on the red carpet for the Netflix film Will & Harper at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood in Los Angeles.
Ferrell married Swedish actress Viveca Paulin in 2000. They met in 1995 during an acting class.
They have three sons: Magnus, 20, Mattias, 17, and Axel, 14.
Will Ferrell made a rare move on Thursday. The Hollywood actor posed with his wife Viveca Paulin and two of their sons. They were with Mattias and Magnus
This comes after Ferrell said he endured the “unbearable” pain of being called John by his teachers at school.
The elf star was registered at birth as John William Ferrell, but his parents named him Will.
And it took forever for people to get used to calling him by the name they chose.
He told his Anchorman co-star Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler’s ‘MeSsy’ podcast: ‘This is a small thing in terms of — it’s not even really a trauma — but I remember being so embarrassed because my real name is John, John William Ferrell, so on the first day of school I was going to be John.
‘The teacher was going to be like John Ferrell and I was so embarrassed to have to say, “Here, but I call myself Will, I don’t call myself John.”‘
He continued: ‘It wasn’t my choice.
My parents called [me] John, but they called me Will. I grew up as Will, but on a rule sheet my legal name is John Ferrell.
They stood arm in arm on the red carpet for the Netflix film Will & Harper at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood in Los Angeles
Ferrell married Swedish actress Viveca Paulin in 2000; they met in 1995 during an acting class. They have three sons: Magnus, 20, Mattias, 17, and Axel, 14
“I don’t know why I found it so embarrassing to have to explain, ‘I’m actually Will.'”
The Barbie actor joked, “People will probably listen to this and think, ‘That’s the lamest thing ever.'”
Will opens up about his school days after taking a dig at his old college rivals in ‘Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga’.
The 56-year-old actor studied sports reporting at the University of Southern California (USC), but a scene in the film features a small group of Americans dressed in Arizona State University (ASU) gear. He admitted that this was intentionally meant to mock the “party school.”
Also in attendance at the event were Will’s father Lee Ferrell and stepmother Karen Ferrell
Asked about the scene, he told Screen Rant: “That was Pac 12 fellowship. That was also a perfect party school to make fun of, because at USC, we’re now graduates of a fine academic institution.
“When I was there, maybe not so much, but now it’s really hard to get in. ASU? You know, anyone can get in there.”
Will played Eurovision contestant Lars Erickssong in the film, while Pierce Brosnan, 71, played his father Erick.