Orlando Bloom and Domhnall Gleeson are Bucking Fastards for Werner Herzog

The sisters “even make the same slip of tongue in unison,” the film’s synopsis continues. “In search of an imaginary land, the Orkneys—where true love is possible—they start digging a tunnel through an entire mountain range.” 

Bloom will reportedly portray the twins’ “rowdy ex-lover Gareth Mulroney,” while Gleeson will play Timothy, their “government-issued social worker/mender, trying to help them adapt to modern life after the two become tabloid sensations.” The project wrapped filming in Europe this weekend, so Gleeson will presumably have some free time to take these newly learned skills to Australia should the real-life twins from the interview ever require his services.

Herzog also spoke publicly about the film for the first time today. “Bucking Fastard is a film that, for me, completes a circle in an operatic triptych with my previous films, Fitzcarraldo and Grizzly Man,” he said. “We cannot see the world as Jean and Joan Holbrooke see it, but we do see how the world reacts to them—through the courts and the press, through those that want to help and those who want to use them, through the eyes of beasts both tame and wild, and even through their own echoes in the core of the earth.”

This will be the first time the Mara sisters share the screen. Rooney recently appeared in the 2024 drama La Cocina and 2022’s Women Talking, while Kate appeared in Friendship, as well as The Dutchman and The Astronaut, both of which premiered at SXSW. Bloom recently starred in Red Right Hand, while Gleeson will appear in Guy Ritchie’s Fountain Of Youth, which begins streaming May 23 on Apple TV+.