Kate Mara is glad she and sister Rooney Mara waited until now to collaborate.
The siblings play twins in Werner Herzog’s ‘Bucking Fastard’ and Kate, 42, who is two years older than sister Rooney in real life, revealed they waited so long because they wanted to settle on a director they were both happy with.
She told The Hollywood Reporter: “We’ve been looking for something to do together for a while, and we have been sent things that were interesting. Playing sisters or not wasn’t actually important to us. We wrapped [‘Bucking Fastard’] a couple weeks ago, and it now makes so much sense that this was the one that was waiting for us. We read Werner’s email that asked us to be in it, and we’re both such massive fans of his. So the first hurdle was finding a filmmaker that we both like, and while we like a lot of the same things, we both had an equal excitement about working with Werner.
“And then it’s just hysterical that we’re playing total equals who speak in unison and do everything the same. They dream the same in the film, and they’re so in sync. We could have never imagined finding two roles in a film where we’re literally equals in so many ways, and it was just so perfect. So there was no hesitation after we met Werner, and it was so obvious that we needed to do it.”
And, Kate – who is married to fellow actor Jamie Bell - insisted she never had any worries about working with Rooney, 40.
She said: “I didn’t really worry about that with my sister. There’s so many actors in our family. My husband is an actor, and sometimes, we’re offered things to do together. So I understand that thought, and it’s definitely crossed my mind on potential things with Jamie. But it didn’t come into play with my sister and this movie, specifically.”
