Werner Herzog Recruited His 'Bucking Fastard' Cast With Letters and Zoom Calls

Kate Mara said she and her sister Rooney Mara found out they had booked their roles in "Bucking Fastard," a film from Werner Herzog, the way only he would tell them: with a letter. "We got a letter from him," Kate Mara told Jada Yuan at TheWrap's studio at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival. "It was a joint letter, and I was so excited. It was like, 'Dear Mara Sisters,' and then it described his movie. It's just so rare to get sent something from one of your creative heroes." "Bucking Fastard" stars the Mara sisters as "siblings who speak as one, fall in . . .