Resort at Pelican Hill <\/a>in Newport Beach, California, where the final two episodes were filmed as Lonnie makes his last push toward redemption. <\/p>\nJust days before the July 16 premiere Ferrell, Shannon, Wilson, Feimster, and Tatro sat down for interviews and made one thing abundantly clear: making The Hawk was every bit as entertaining as watching it.<\/p>\n
My first interview paired Ferrell and Shannon, who both acknowledged that audiences may be surprised by the emotional depth beneath the comedy. As parents themselves, they spoke about drawing from their own experiences to portray two exes navigating the complicated realities of co-parenting. <\/p>\n
Will Ferrell talks about creating his quirky character in ‘The Hawk’ on Netflix.<\/p>\n
Photo by Colleen E Hayes\/Netflix<\/p>\n
Ferrell explained Lonnie\u2019s struggles as a father.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe feeling of parenting is a little bit akin to being on ice skates. You never know but sometimes you have a good feeling about the discussion you just had, or the decision you made. But then other times, you\u2019re like, \u2018Was that too much? Was it not enough?\u2019 I think they wrestle with that constantly. More Stacy than Lonnie, you know. He’s a bit of a wild card. He can’t help himself. He has ADHD, and then it comes right back to him.\u201d <\/p>\n
Molly Shannon in ‘The Hawk’ on Netflix.<\/p>\n
Photo by Colleen E Hayes\/Netflix<\/p>\n
For Shannon, Stacy\u2019s complexity made the role especially enjoyable. <\/p>\n
\u201cI love performing a scene where I\u2019m like, \u2018You gotta win. Here’s what’s gonna happen.\u2019 I really try to manipulate him. That was really fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stacy is equally driven to grow her beverage brand \u201cTeed Off,\u201d and both actors acknowledged that her ambitions may sometimes outweigh her maternal instincts when it comes to Lance\u2019s success. <\/p>\n
Shannon has some questions about her character. \u201cShe thinks she\u2019s so much better than Lonnie, but is she?\u201d <\/p>\n
One of The Hawk\u2019s biggest strengths is how its comedy grows out of oddly specific character details. <\/p>\n
Lonnie, for instance, has an inexplicable love of pickles and white wine. Ferrell laughed while explaining that both quirks originated long before a script even existed. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe usually start in a general sense of just, even if it\u2019s a joke idea. I said, \u2018I don’t know how we’re going to make this make sense, but I want Lonnie to get his hand caught in a pickle jar at some point.\u2019 So then, in an effort to justify that, Lonnie just enjoys a good pickle. So, we reconstructed it to get to that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The white wine obsession came just as randomly. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was driving around one day, and I was like, \u2018Shouldn\u2019t Lonnie just only drink white wine?\u2019 It’s just an interesting choice. It’s not very masculine. It’s very specific. He almost makes it look cool in a weird way,\u201d Ferrell said, mimicking how his character holds a wine glass. <\/p>\n
He credits the show\u2019s 10-episode format for giving those quirky choices room to evolve. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that you have this much real estate, that you have 10 episodes, you get to kind of indulge yourself and make these interesting character choices that can then play on down the road.\u201d<\/p>\n
The laughs weren\u2019t limited to the finished series. Ferrell and Shannon admitted they frequently struggled to keep straight faces while filming. <\/p>\n
\u201cWill can really make me laugh,\u201d Shannon said.<\/p>\n
Will Ferrell and Fortune Feimster in ‘The Hawk’ on Netflix.<\/p>\n
Photo by Colleen E Hayes\/Netflix<\/p>\n
Ferrell confessed that he often got \u201cthe giggles,\u201d especially while working with Feimster. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s one scene where she ferociously, blindly has my back, and she just started yelling at someone, and I was like, \u2018We\u2019re both sociopaths. What is happening?\u2019 And we were just cracking up, like, \u2018Where did you come up with that?\u2019 I think it was when she called someone a nut boy or something.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a separate interview, Tatro, Feimster, and Wilson echoed the same sentiment: making The Hawk was as much fun as it looks. <\/p>\n
Jimmy Tatro in ‘The Hawk’ on Netflix.<\/p>\n
Photo by Aaron Epstein\/Netflix<\/p>\n
Tatro, who took his first golf lesson for the role, serves as the perfect straight man opposite Ferrell\u2019s wonderfully unhinged performance and emerges as one of the show\u2019s biggest scene-stealers. <\/p>\n
Discussing Lance\u2019s emotional conflict, Tatro said:<\/p>\n
\u201cI think for Lance, I kind of just was trying to play it as serious as possible. Lance is not really the funniest guy. He\u2019s never really in on the joke. You have to play those types of characters straightforward. The more serious you are and set on what you\u2019re talking about, then people can laugh at you. Lance isn’t really in on the joke. So you kind of just play it like a drama.\u201d<\/p>\n
Feimster said what initially appeared to be another outrageous comedy role ultimately became something much more meaningful. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you first start the show, you just kind of see another ridiculous character, like Will\u2019s character, who’s just absurd and does crazy stuff. It was really cool as an actor for them to let my character have this arc of this emotional stuff with Will’s character and with my own personal relationship with my dad on the show. I think that what started to come through is that it’s a real, genuine friendship with Lonnie and Sam.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luke Wilson in ‘The Hawk’ on Netflix.<\/p>\n
Photo by Aaron Epstein\/Netflix<\/p>\n
Wilson, meanwhile, embraced every aspect of his flamboyant rival Golden Fisk, including dyeing his hair bright blond, a decision that surprised nearly everyone around him. <\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, people thought I was having a nervous breakdown. I\u2019d said at the beginning that I’d like to dye this guy’s hair gold.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Hawk delivers exactly what fans expect from a Will Ferrell comedy: big laughs, ridiculous characters, and delightfully offbeat humor. <\/p>\n
But its biggest surprise isn\u2019t the comedy; it\u2019s the heart. Beneath the outrageous antics is a genuinely moving story about family, redemption, second chances, and finding your way back to the people who matter most. <\/p>\n
This emotional core, combined with Ferrell\u2019s signature brand of absurdity and a cast that clearly relished every minute on set, makes The Hawk every bit as enjoyable to watch as it was to make. If audiences embrace it the way its cast did, they\u2019ll be laughing all the way to a well-deserved second season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Ferrell in ‘The Hawk’ on Netflix. Photo by Colleen E Hayes\/Netflix \u201cComedy is free speech!\u201d yelled Will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10876,44,14071,5348,10853,5349,15305,2874,15307,15306,5431],"class_list":["post-37979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-fortune-feimster","tag-golf","tag-jimmy-tatro","tag-luke-wilson","tag-molly-shannon","tag-netflix","tag-netflix-comedy-series","tag-professional-golf","tag-the-pga","tag-the-resort-at-pelican-hill","tag-will-ferrell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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