Will Ferrell Hits On Nancy Kerrigan!

Four Olympic ice skaters agreed to appear as themselves in Jon Heder and Will Ferrell ‘s figure-skating spoof Blades of Glory, but not all of them got the gold medal of a big laugh.

The movie, which opens March 30, stars Heder and Ferrell as nasty rivals who team up to reclaim their honor after being ejected from solo competition. Peggy Fleming, who won Olympic gold in 1968, has a cameo as a judge, but the role is mostly serious. The high point: She got to see Ferrell “doing one of his trademark underwear runs.”

“Will Ferrell told me the skating moves were some of the hardest things he’d ever had to do,” adds Brian Boitano, 1988 Olympic gold medalist. “He said, ‘Now I feel guilty for making fun of skating.’ ”

Like Fleming, whom he joins on the faux panel, Boitano also wishes he’d gotten a funny line: “I said, ‘Can’t I swear or something?’ ”

The film mocks the hyper-competitiveness of skating, which Nancy Kerrigan, who also appears as a judge, knows too well. She won Olympic bronze in 1992 and silver in 1994, and was attacked by associates of her rival just a month before her second Olympics.

Though skaters in the movie brawl, she says it’s silly fun. “They just cause a lot of chaos at the competition, but it’s all comedy.”

Kerrigan got one unwelcome close encounter with Ferrell’s character. “Will makes a play for me because he’s a sex addict,” she says. “He did it so many different ways, with different takes and reactions, I don’t know what they’ll use.”

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Will Ferrell Hits On Nancy Kerrigan!

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