Rooney And Kate Mara To Star In New Movie From Werner Herzog

EXCLUSIVE: Real life sisters Kate and Rooney Mara are now looking to play fictional sisters as the two are set to star in Bucking Fastard from Werner Herzog. Herzog will write and direct the film with Ariel Leon Isacovitch, Agnes Chu. Production is set to start this spring in Ireland and Slovenia.

The film is based on the true story of two inseparable twin sisters, “Joan” and “Jean” who live on the fringes of society.

The film marks the first time the two have worked together. For Rooney, the two Oscar-nominee was most recently seen in the Orion Pictures drama Women Talking from writer director Sarah Polley. She is repped by WME, Entertainment 360 and Sloane, Offer, Weber and Dern.

Kate was most recently seen in the FX series Class of ’09 and can be seen next in the sci fi thriller The Astronaut. She is repped by CAA, Mosaic and Sloane, Offer, Weber and Dern.

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