"I grew up as Will, but on a rule sheet, my legal name is John Ferrell," Will Ferrell explained on Christina Applegate and Jamie-Lynn Sigler's 'MeSsy' podcast Will Ferrell's legal first name is ...

"It's what we need right now in a lot of different ways," Will's stepmother Karen Ferrell says of 'Will & Harper,' streaming on Netflix Sept. 27 Scott Huver is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.