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Will Ferrell's Hollywood Hills retreat is hardly in the boondocks — you could almost imagine socking a golf ball onto Hollywood Boulevard with a long drive and a few great downhill bounces — but when you come around a twisty road to his gate, you pause. Not that his driveway's way steep, but if you miss first gear, the next stop might be Tijuana.
This tract of lush growth was once a woodland hunting preserve... In the coming months, Ferrell and family will move to a single, eco-friendly house being built nearby.
The actor emerges from what's called the Upper House, clad in a dress shirt, shorts, and sneakers, his ginger-brown hair bushier than one might expect. Even though his all-electric car trumps the visitor's Prius as a symbol of carbon neutrality, he doesn't fail to give it props.
The environment-minded Ferrell has long been a devout member of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and when the group held a fundraiser three years ago, Ferrell was there in full "Mission Accomplished" flight-suit gear, introduced as "the President of the United States" by Tom Hanks to deliver a sedulously obtuse speech in full Dubya mode ("Frankly, a lot of endangered species are gonna be extincted").
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