Will Ferrell, 47, is terrified of ghosts.
The actor rented a house in New Orleans while filming The Campaign and used to go “looking” for spooks every night and beg them to stay away from him.
He said: “The person who rented it to me said many generations had lived there. And I said: ‘So people died here?’ She didn’t answer. And I would come home and hear the moans and creaks of this old house and I would say out loud: ‘Not now! I just can’t deal with this, okay?’ That was my ritual.”
The actor also revealed he once tried to convince his entire college fraternity that they should “consider going gay” for practical reasons: “We’d have these Monday chapter meetings and I was our song chairman. For some reason I convinced everyone I should give a song chairman’s report, and I suggested the fraternity really should consider going gay. I had all these practical reasons. Like, it’d save us a lot of money in terms of parties. It’d reduce our risk from a liability standpoint...”