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Will Ferrell is a notorious funny man. Some would say outrageously goofy. Which is why his departure from comedy may come as a suprise. Well, maybe it's not a complete departure.

In fact, his latest film "Everything Must Go" has been described as a "dramedy" standing somewhere between the drama and comedic genres.

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The film is based on a short story by Raymond Carver and tells the story of an alcoholic who relapses and loses his wife and job. He holds a garage sale on his front lawn in an attempt to sell everything and start over, which is when he meets Kenny Loftus, played by Christopher Jordan Wallace (B.I.G's son). We won't give the rest away, but this movie is one you need to see when it hits theaters this Friday, the 13th. 

We sat down with Will Ferrell for an exclusive interview about the film and you can check it out below.

GlobalGrind: Did you wake up and go, I want to play something serious, get me Dan Rush’s script?

Will Ferrell: No, Dan Rush’s script just came to me. They didn’t not give it to me. They were like, you know what, we just read this really great script that was kind of in the vein of “Stranger Than Fiction” and back to something like that. Because that experience was so great, we’ve been looking to do something like that again. And I read it and I thought it was great. I met Dan and he seemed like a good guy. The only bad news for Dan was, I said I’d love to do this but I can’t do it for another year and half.

Did you find it easy to do this? Was it a simple role to slip into?

I don’t know if I found it easy. It was definitely challenging and at the same time, I think, because we talked about it so much, we talked about what the tone would be, every discussion from, is this guy a hard alcohol drinker, is he a beer drinker. Every sort of detail that we really discuss and had a game plan going in to where I felt as secure as I could feel going into something like this. I’ve always felt that even in the comedies that I’ve done, I’ve always tried to approach it ― regardless of how outlandish my character might be ― you still play it very real. So that isn’t any different from how I approached this movie.