THE BLADES OF GLORY GUY WHO ISN'T WILL FERRELL

Heder, especially, went from overconfident to often intimidated during skating lessons with Ferrell, who was equally inept going forward, backward or just staying still.

"My faith in my skating world was shattered when Will and I had our early training sessions," says Heder, a Mormon from Oregon who had never laced up a pair of blades in his life.

Still, being a little bit athletic he expected to get some camera-ready moves down. "The deal was we would do some of the skating, but naturally the harder tricks like the lifts and the jumps would be done by stunt professionals," Heder recalls. "I thought that wouldn't be a problem."

Then reality set in. "Even skating forward was hard," he admits. "I remember thinking, 'I just don't know how this will workout,' because we had to get to a certain level of believability, and try to look natural on and off the ice."

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