It’s just another chapter in your friendship and this film is just about friendship, so between the both of you do you now have a new definition of what friendship means, or is it still the same but with a stronger bond?

Harper Steele: I think sort of, we do have a new definition – or well I do. I think what I appreciate the most about friendship in general, and was something I began to understand a little better on this trip, is friends who really do put in the time and listen to their friends. Those are the real friends and I have those friends, I’m fortunate enough to have those friends. But I didn’t really appreciate the work that goes into it. And I felt like, “Oh, yeah, I feel better for knowing this. Maybe I might be a better friend now.” That was a learning experience for me.

As a writer and a creator, so much of yourself is put into your work. Now you’re in a new phase of life, has your writing changed at all? Do you imagine it having more depth now you can live as your full authentic self? How has it affected your creative process?

Harper: Well, certainly there are areas of comedy that I have learned that I would like to keep away from just out of respect for trans people or queer people in general. That’s been a developing thing way before I transitioned. And here’s the thing before I transitioned, a lot of myself in terms of my repressed feelings were out there on the page and I was using the page to express them. So I don’t know, I haven’t really put anything big out there since I transitioned. So this will be fascinating to me.