Will Ferrell's latest role: male model – in pictures

'Will Ferrell is one of the good guys. He’s one of those individuals you want to hang out with. Hell, you want to be him. He’s funny, smart, knows Obama and ridiculed Bush (both of them), repeatedly, over and over again. And then did it some more. He says the words "whale’s vagina" with deep conviction (not easy: you try it). But how can this be so?' Photograph: TIM BARBER/PORT Magazine

'How can we love a man who has spent the last 10 years playing misogynistic idiots, pathetic MTV-watching-in-your-pants losers and men who have nothing else to do but make up stuff and have deeply unrealistic dreams? That’s what we wanted to look at with this cover story and shoot with Will at his house in LA' Photograph: TIM BARBER/PORT Magazine

'Before Anchorman 2 launches late next year (along with all the press that accompanies such launches), we wanted to spend some time with the real Will, not Will being funny for a shoot or in costume, but the working man who has a solid family with children and who has spearheaded a comedic revolution in the US' Photograph: TIM BARBER/PORT Magazine

Photos: Tim Barber
Styling: David St John-James, PORT fashion director
The Will Ferrell interview appears in this latest edition of PORT magazine Photograph: TIM BARBER/PORT